OpenEuphoria

Re: code pages I think

• Posted by daryl_vdb at HOTMAIL.COM May 11, 2001
• 522 views

Looking good. Now, when I use a font dialog, I'll also need to know if it's 
SYMBOL_CHARSET or EOM_CHARSET etc. Oh well, thanks for improving it, and now 
I know I can (hopefully) use every font on my computer. Can't wait for the 
next version.

Thanks again,
Daryl van den Brink

>Hello Daryl,
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <daryl_vdb at HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 9:50 PM
>Subject: Re: code pages I think
>
>
>
> > What if I made a windows euphoria editor using win32lib? Do you think it
> > would use the "terminal" font? NO! And even worse, I found a true type
>font
> > that has the same set of characters, and do you think that would work?
> > NO!!!! This has me stumped, as I used a font selection dialog box to
>select
> > the font, and it worked with every other font I tried.  What is wrong 
>with
> > the win32lib font routines? (this true type font is called "MS LindDraw"
>and
> > is included with microsoft office, but the characters don't join up
> > vertically like the "terminal" font and is generally not as good fof 
>what
>I
> > wanted it for)
> >
> > This would be especially annoying if I distributed a program and people
> > complained that they can't use any font they want to. BTW, I am not 
>making
> > an editor, I just used it as an example. I know I have brought this up
> > before, but I would like to see win32lib support *every* font, even if 
>it
>is
> > old, ugly and rarely used.
>
>This is a limitation with the setFont() routine in win32lib. The current
>version assumes that only TrueType ANSI character fonts will be used. This
>has been enhanced in the next version by expanding the attributes 
>parameter.
>
>Examples:
>
>     setFont(id, "Marlett", 12,
>        {
>         Normal,
>         0,
>         0,
>         0,
>         SYMBOL_CHARSET,
>         0,
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