find the pitch and style of the font

[Larry Folts]

How can I find the pitch and style of the font being used by the printer? I want to be able to read the font parameters into variables, change them, do some printing and then put them back to what they were originally.

[Michael Mattias]

Assuming you have a handle to the printer device context (which you can get any number of ways eg PrinttDlg()), GetCurrentObject () can return a handle to the current font, against which you can call GetObject () which will return a LOGFONT structure containing that info.

But to do what you want (change the font to something else, then restore when done), you don't really need to gather all the detail info.. a handle is sufficient.

You can just SelectObject (hDc, hNewfont), returning the current font handle, then when you are done, select the old font into the DC and delete your new font.

You usually see this done kind of in this order...

 hNewFont = CreateFont[Indirect]  ...            ' create font for special printing
 hOldfont   = SelectObject (hDc, hNewFont)
 *** Printing operations here ***
 DeleteObject  Selectobject (hDc, hOldFont)  ' restore old font and destroy new

MCM

[Larry Folts]

Michael,

Thank you for the info. I will give it a try and see if I can get it to work. I'll let you know.

Larry

[Can Le]

Hi!

Please show me how to get Graphic to work in my PBCC4.0, such as
#include "Win32API.inc" or Graphic windows ..... to draw a line or to change font size:

I found this from Keyword Help but I dont know what lib or include do I need to make it in PBCC4.0.

Please help by add detail such as:

Function PBMAIN () AS LONG:

' Set the font for the selected graphic window to
' Times New Roman, 18 points, bold + italic + underline =(1+2+4).

GRAPHIC FONT "Times New Roman", 18, 7
' or:
GRAPHIC TEXT SIZE txt$ TO nWidth!, nHeight!
' and
GRAPHIC LINE (10, 10) - (10, 100)

GRAPHIC LINE END
END FUNCTION


' I had error with _ hypen on graphic end or no line, it works when I run source code samples so my setup is ok with the compiler.

Thank you

[Can Le]

Font:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=17324

[Can Le]

Thank,

I have this example works ok, from Keyword G in PBCC4 document

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

' Create and show a Graphic window on screen
LOCAL hWin AS DWORD
GRAPHIC WINDOW "Box", 300, 300, 130, 130 TO hWin
GRAPHIC ATTACH hWin, 0
GRAPHIC BOX (10, 10) - (120, 120), 0, %BLUE
SLEEP 5000 ' show it for 5 seconds, then end
END FUNCTION

[Fred Buffington]

Here's a simple graphic window with a polygon and a print statement

'PBCC4 program
#COMPILE EXE
#REGISTER NONE
'no need for include files for the graphic statements alone.

'polygon type defs as outlined in help
TYPE PolyPoint
  x AS SINGLE
  y AS SINGLE
END TYPE

TYPE PolyArray
  count AS LONG
  xy(1 TO 1024) AS PolyPoint
END TYPE


FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

    DIM pi AS EXT
    pi=3.1415926535 'not used in this program
'*************************************
'create and attach the graphic window
'*************************************
    GRAPHIC WINDOW "Graphics", 100, 100, 400, 400  TO hWin???
    GRAPHIC ATTACH hWin???, 0

    DIM MyPolygon AS PolyArray

    MyPolygon.count=3   'specify 3 points in this polygon
'*************************************
'set the polygon points for my arrow
'(filled triangle)
'*************************************
    MyPolygon.xy(1).x=100
    MyPolygon.xy(1).y=100
    MyPolygon.xy(2).x=100
    MyPolygon.xy(2).y=200
    MyPolygon.xy(3).x=200
    MyPolygon.xy(3).y=150



'*************************
'show the graphic window
'and print a line and
'a big arrow
'************************

    GRAPHIC POLYGON MyPolygon  ,%BLACK, %BLACK ' [, [fillstyle&] [, fillmode&]]]]
    GRAPHIC FONT "Times New Roman", 18, 7
    GRAPHIC SET POS (10,300)
    GRAPHIC PRINT "hello this is times new roman pitch 18"
    WAITKEY$
    GRAPHIC WINDOW END

END FUNCTION