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Borland does not natively support ClearType.  However, according to MSDN, it
should be just a matter of calling SystemParametersInfo() to enable it.  See
the following URL for details:

    ClearType Antialiasing
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp


Gambit

"biondello" <biondello@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:3e6521aa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I have enabled ClearType on my notebook and noticed that apps
> compiled with vs.net render text using ClearType smoothing. BCB6
> apps don't use ClearType although I use the same font as in vs.net.
> Are there any extra steps required to make BCB render text using
> ClearType?

Thanks but I had already tried that with no success. I think this is
suppossed to change the system-wide settings for font smoothing. Strangely
if smoothing is disabled in the display properties these calls will only
enable the standard smoothing and not cleartype. If cleartype is already
enabled I can see no change.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3e6523a4$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Borland does not natively support ClearType.  However, according to MSDN,
it
> should be just a matter of calling SystemParametersInfo() to enable it.
See
> the following URL for details:
>
>     ClearType Antialiasing
>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp
>

I searched a bit on google and found that MS Sans Serif doesn't work with
ClearType however in vs.net it seems to work. So I tried Tahoma and it looks
really nice.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3e6523a4$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Borland does not natively support ClearType.  However, according to MSDN,
it
> should be just a matter of calling SystemParametersInfo() to enable it.
See
> the following URL for details:
>
>     ClearType Antialiasing
>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp
>
>
> Gambit
>
> "biondello" <biondello@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:3e6521aa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> > I have enabled ClearType on my notebook and noticed that apps
> > compiled with vs.net render text using ClearType smoothing. BCB6
> > apps don't use ClearType although I use the same font as in vs.net.
> > Are there any extra steps required to make BCB render text using
> > ClearType?
>
>
>
>

Remy/Gambit, I mean this with all admiration.  How do you know about ALL these things?  It seems
that every time someone asks a technical question you know the answer, and they are across such a
wide range of topics.  If you don't mind me asking, what do you do to pay the bills?  How did you
get such a wide range of knowledge?

Oh, and also another "thank you" for this response about ClearType and for about a thousand other
answers to others questions that I have found useful.  Really, I'm not trying to kiss your a**.
Sincerely, thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge and your no doubt very valuable time to
help us all.

Thanks again,
Michael

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:16:17 -0800, "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Borland does not natively support ClearType.  However, according to MSDN, it
>should be just a matter of calling SystemParametersInfo() to enable it.  See
>the following URL for details:
>
>    ClearType Antialiasing
>    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp
>
>
>Gambit
>
>"biondello" <biondello@gmx.net> wrote in message
>news:3e6521aa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> I have enabled ClearType on my notebook and noticed that apps
>> compiled with vs.net render text using ClearType smoothing. BCB6
>> apps don't use ClearType although I use the same font as in vs.net.
>> Are there any extra steps required to make BCB render text using
>> ClearType?
>
>
>

"Michael Wade" <noway@nohow.com> wrote in message
news:ilcc6vo32i9i8146lop2cac7ho25q7mvvn@4ax.com...
> Remy/Gambit, I mean this with all admiration.  How do you
> know about ALL these things?

Knowledge is not just about retaining facts in one's head.  It's also a
matter of simply knowing where to look for the answers when you don't
already have them on-hand.  In this case, I refer to the VCL source code, to
MSDN, to newsgroup archives, etc. when needed.  They contain much more
information then my otherwise short memory could ever hope to hold at a
time.

> It seems that every time someone asks a technical question you
> know the answer, and they are across such a wide range of
> topics.  If you don't mind me asking, what do you do to pay the
> bills? How did you get such a wide range of knowledge?

I'm a full-time software programmer by profession.  But the knowledge I
bring to these groups does not come from my job.  If anything, it comes from
my hobby instead - I'm also a hobbyist programmer :-)


Gambit