Line graphic characters with GRAPHIC PRINT?

[Gert Voland]

Hi,

for the console (DOS world) we have ASCII characters for line graphic in the
range above 128, such as CHR$(218) for top left corner.
Under Windows these characters are still available - now as UNICODE - but are
coded with numbers above 255.
Since PB does not (yet?) support UNICODE for the GRAPHIC PRINT command,
I wonder if someone has an idea how to get such line graphic characters onto
a graphic screen?
As a last chance, they could be drawn by GRAPHIC LINE statements. But isn't
there may be an easier way with GRAPHIC PRINT?

Best regards,
Gert Voland.

[Chris Holbrook]

"Generic DOS" font looks promising...

[Tom Hanlin]

Sounds like you want to select an OEM font for the graphic window...

[Fred Buffington]

MS Linedraw might be worth looking into also. Both MS Linedraw and Generic DOS fonts were suggested by lance for use with his dllprint program also.

[Michael Mattias]

>As a last chance, they could be drawn by GRAPHIC LINE statements

As a LAST chance?

Call me naive but I would think the GRAPHIC LINE statement was included so you could, um, er, well, draw lines.

[Gert Voland]

Well, I don't have "Generic Dos" or "MS Linedraw" fonts installed on my Windows XP (no .ttf either).

Does anyone know a (free) source?

By the way, somehow I missed the meaning of the parameter charset& in FONT NEW, when you have to supply a fontname$:
FONT NEW fontname$ [,points!, style&, charset&, pitch&, escapement&] TO fhndl?
In PBCC Help there is this list with numbers between 0 and 255, but how does it work?

Thanks,
Gert Voland.

[Paul Dixon]

Terminal font has them.

Paul.

[Gert Voland]

Call me naive but I would think the GRAPHIC LINE statement was included so you could, um, er, well, draw lines.

Don't worry, I won't call you anything ...

Sure any replacement for line characters could be constructed. It would have to be called character by character - and would work primarily with fixed width fonts. I was just looking for an easier way ...

I'm just testing different possibilities to (a) read in text files with frames based on line characters, (b) do some editing, (c) putting them on a GRAPHIC screen, (d) getting them on a printer AND (e) writing them back as .txt (which then can be read and translated to UniCode by Word).

GV.

[Paul Dixon]

Gert,
the following code works here:

'PBCC5.02 program
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

LOCAL hWin, hFont AS DWORD
GRAPHIC WINDOW "Test", 300, 300, 600, 400 TO hWin
GRAPHIC ATTACH hWin, 0

FONT NEW "Terminal",20 TO hFont
GRAPHIC SET FONT hFont
GRAPHIC PRINT "ÉÍËÍ»"
GRAPHIC PRINT "ÌÍÎ͹"
GRAPHIC PRINT "ÈÍÊͼ"
GRAPHIC PRINT "  ÚÄÄÄÄ¿"
GRAPHIC PRINT "  ÀÄÄÄÄÙ"

GRAPHIC WAITKEY$

END FUNCTION

Paul.

[Guy Dombrowski]

Also, do not forget good old 8514OEM and the newer aSwit Mono 437

[Gert Voland]

Paul,

Terminal font has them.

Yes, Terminal works well. The only drawback, it is a very roughly "pixeled"
font and can't be scaled well ...

Strange, though, that Terminal is available for most Window programs (Excel, TextPad, PB etc.) but not in Word (at least not in mine).


Guy,

... good old 8514OEM and the newer aSwit Mono 437

Where could I get them from?


Rgds,
Gert.


PS: I still don't know what charset& is for in FONT NEW.

[Paul Dixon]

Gert,

The only drawback, it is a very roughly "pixeled"

Then use Terminal for the boxes and another suitable font for the characters:

'PBCC5.02 program
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

LOCAL hWin, hFont1, hFont2 AS DWORD
GRAPHIC WINDOW "Test", 300, 300, 600, 400 TO hWin
GRAPHIC ATTACH hWin, 0

FONT NEW "Terminal",70 TO hFont1
FONT NEW "Courier New",50,1 TO hFont2

GRAPHIC SET FONT hFont1
GRAPHIC PRINT "  ÚÄÄÄÄ¿"
GRAPHIC PRINT "  ÀÄÄÄÄÙ"
GRAPHIC SET FONT hFont2
GRAPHIC SET POS (150,50)

GRAPHIC PRINT "Hello"
GRAPHIC WAITKEY$

END FUNCTION

[Michael Mattias]

>I'm just testing different possibilities to (a) ...

Um, you might want to look at either...
A. Creating a dialog to handle the "present text with frames for editing"
OR
B. Looking to see if a PB/WIndows license is in the cards. (DIALOG NEW + CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX)

... and with either compiler, XPRINT is probably the most straightforward way to handle the printing.

The GRAPHIC WINDOW is not a substitute for a genuine window/dialog with real controls on it.

MCM

[Paul Dixon]

Gert,

and can't be scaled well ...

I hadn't realised that, I now see it only scales in large increments.

Paul.

[Fred Buffington]

Gert, if you need thos fonts (ms linedraw and generic dos), I have them and will gladly send them to you. email me.

[Guy Dombrowski]

Gert,

You can download the aSwit Mono 437 for free at http://www.aswit.com/english.htm

It is the best font for the PBCC IDE editor text
Goes from 8 to 36 size and has smooth pixel

If you download the PrintFil printing utility you will also get it