Font in a resource file

[Mike Will]

Greetings

I want to use a special font (only for this one app) and I would like to use it from a resource file (.pbr). There was a discussion about this five years ago, which didn't really resolve much. I'm hoping someone has worked on this since. Obviously, a code example would be appreciated. I'm using PBWin 9
Thanks much

Mike


PS I read somewhere that there is a free upgrade from PB/Forms 1.50 to 1.51 but I couldn't find it anywhere. Please advise.

[Michael Mattias]

There was a discussion about this five years ago, which didn't really resolve much.

Oh, it sure DID..

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=22327

Oh, you wanted to do this without the need to ship an external file?

//  myprog.rc 
101   MYFONT     "font_file_name" 
...

User-Defined Resource Demo January 26 2003

[Michael Mattias]

(It ran 'as is' this AM using Pb Win 9.0.0)

You know, "someone" should really clean up that demo and post it in the source code forum with a more searchable title..... with the code required to store the font file in a program resource, too.

How about YOU? It would be a very nice "first contribution".

[Michael Mattias]

Re the comment about the one file not loading from the program resource...

There is a bug in PBRES 1.86 (what shipped with 7x, 8x and 9x) which may be affecting this. Try it with PBRES 1.61

If you don't have that version of PBRES.EXE, ask support for a copy. I know they have it because they used it to confirm my bug report about 10 days ago.

MCM

[Mike Will]

Many thanks, Michael. I haven't got it working yet, but at least the resource file now compiles without complaint. Once everything is a go, I will indeed comply with your suggestion to contribute.

Also, thanks to Jeff Daniels for the whereabouts of PB/Forms 1.51

Regards,

Mike