Fonts relative

[Semen Matusovski]

Guys --
Somebody know
1) how to set charset explicity for OEM font (Lucida Console) ?
OEM_CHARSET doesn't satisfy me, because depends of PC settings.
(BTW, I want to display OEM text in GUI window)
2) how to retrieve real facename after CreateFont ?
I tried
hFont= CreateFont(... "Blum-Blum")
GetObject hFont, SizeOf(lf), ByVal VarPtr(lf)
Msgbox lf.lfFaceName
and successful received Blum-Bum.



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[Ian Cairns]

About the name of the TypeFace:
You can't be sure of the font until it is actually selected into a device context.
Then you can use the GetTextFace(hDC, BYVAL length_szString, BYVAL VARPTR(szString) ) )
function to retrieve the typeface name of the font.

Regards,

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[Steve Mc Gregor]

1) To correctly create a font Lucida Console simply:
Local lf As LOGFONT
Local hFont As Long
GetObject GetStockObject(%OEM_FIXED_FONT), SizeOf(lf), ByVal VarPtr(lf)
lf.lfFaceName = "Lucida Console"
hFont = CreateFontIndirect(lf)

2) This is a normal behavior of windows:
From MSDN Library:
"For example, if you request a font named "Palatino," but no such font
is available on the system, the font mapper will substitute a font that
has similar attributes but a different name."

Window expects to help your application run without error for bad font
name. So when you call CreateFont(... "Blum-Blum") windows using the other
parameters find a font similar, but named "Blum-Blum".

Then your code must be a proof of fire , first it must install the font
when you setup it and at run-time verify if it exist.

Steve

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[Semen Matusovski]

Ian --
GetTextFace returned correct result under Win2000. Hope, will be the same under other OSes. Thanks.
Steve --
it's not a problem to select Lucida Console as it is, using OEM_CHARSET (or like you suggest).
Problem is to set charset (similar to ANSI fonts).
I need exactly RUSSIAN_CHARSET. Meanwhile Lucida Console includes other languages.
With OEM_CHARSET it will be selected charset, according regional settings, which could be non-Russian.


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