Re: How get font information on a dialog box control?

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From: John Grant
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:06

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In article <dagwag.724793817@meryl> dagwag@meryl.csd.uu.se writes:
>
> I have created a (modeless) dialog box, defined at compile-time using
>"Dialog Editor", included in the MS QuickC/Win package.  The dialog box
>contains a text field control (LTEXT) for displaying text.
>
> At run-time I need to know the width and height of the characters to
>display in this text field but I can't get hold of the right
>information. GetTextMetrics() returns the _same_ data regardless of the
>font (specified w "Dialog Editor") I use. Why?
> GetDialogBaseUnits() does not return any useful information either, I
>have received the same size (20x10) on all the fonts (System,
>Courier,..)  I have tried. I calculated the different fonts to be 16x10,
>20x8, etc on a certain device.
>
> Wrong functions? Any ideas?
>
> I use QC/Win 1.0, Win 3.1. 
	
	If you can get the HFONT for the window, you can use
	GetObject() to get the LOGFONT contents for the font.

	I'm not sure how you get the HFONT, though.

-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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Subject: Re: How get font information on a dialog box control?
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Keywords: QuickC, Dialog Box Control, Font
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