Using Font from a Resource

[Egbert Zijlema]

Scott,

In the samples directory that came with PBDLL20 there is an example of a digital clock.
Does this knowledge help a bit?

Regards,


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[Scott Turchin]

Eric, is that limited to a fixed scale font or can a TTF be used?
That idea sounds good but a lot of work...

Otherwise, the Imagex thing is where I'm going, pretty easy to toggle around bitmaps, that's the cool part...


Scott

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[Eric Pearson]

Lance --

If I'm not mistaken, the AddFontResource API allows you to add a font to the current selection, without actually installing it. It does not require a reboot on any version of Windows, and it can use a FON file, which is simply a renamed DLL file that contains a font resource and nothing else. (Who knows, it may even accept a DLL file directly.) It's a nice clean way to allow your app to use a nonstandard font, and then you can use RemoveFontResource when your app closes. If you want to hide the FON file you can distribute it as a BIN or something else, and have your program rename the file before calling AddFontResource.

-- Eric

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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited September 30, 2000).]

[Lance Edmonds]

Typo... I should have said BitBlt().

I assumed that you were drawing the whole image from scratch, but using an IMAGE/IMAGEX control qith bitmaps will work fine, and will be a lot easier than using a font.

BTW, I just tested installing fonts (manually) in Win2K and I did not have to reboot to be able to use them, but IIRC Win9x did need rebooting?



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[Scott Turchin]

BltBit? I'm lost on that one but here's what I am doing...

I have %IMG_RED0, %IMG_RED1 etc for the digits, place them on a dialog and then switch them with the appropriate digit based on the time..
I'm not 100% certain how I'm going to do that one just yet but we'll see...

Just used DDT to Control add Image




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[Lance Edmonds]

The font would need to be installed for the Windows GDI sub-system to use it. I'm fairly sure that this means a reboot after installing it too!

If that is too much drama (redistribution licence, installing the font programmatically, etc), then why not just create the digits as bitmaps, and BltBit() them onto the clock display rather than using DrawText/TextOut? That way you can work directly from your resource file at all times.

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[Scott Turchin]

I asked this question a bit differently before...

But, I have a font that I would like to include in my application, can it be embedded into the .EXE from a resource file?
Ie, if it can can it be used?

Anybody have a sample?
It's my time clock, I have a cool digital font and would like to implement it..


Scott


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