WindowFont
Script function

world.WindowFont

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Type

Method

Summary

Loads a font into a miniwindow

Prototype

long WindowFont(BSTR Name, BSTR FontId, BSTR FontName, double Size, BOOL Bold, BOOL Italic, BOOL Underline, BOOL Strikeout, short Charset, short PitchAndFamily);

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Description

This loads the specified font into the miniwindow, and remembers it by the nominated "font id". The font id is later used for drawing in this font. You do not need to specify a colour, that is done when the text is actually drawn.

Name - the name of an existing miniwindow.

FontId - the font id to be associated with this particular font and size. If you are only planning to use one or two fonts you might call them "f1" and "f2". For more complex situations you might call them something like "heading", "body", "boldbody", "footer" etc.

If you use an existing FontId then the existing font is deleted and replaced by the one specified now.

FontName - the name of the font (for example, "Lucida Console", "Comic Sans MS", "Fixedsys"). If the FontName is an empty string (ie. name is "") and the Size is zero, then any existing font of the same FontId is deleted (and no new font is added).

If you are using Lua scripting, you can use the utils.getfontfamilies function to find which font names are actually installed.

Size - the size of the font in points

Bold - true if you want the bold version of the font

Italic - true if you want the italic version of the font

Underline - true if you want the underline version of the font

Strikeout - true if you want the strikeout version of the font

Charset - The character set wanted. Some possible values are:

0 - ANSI
1 - Default
2 - Symbol

Unless you have a reason otherwise, use 1 (default) which is the default value for Lua.

PitchAndFamily - the requested pitch and family

You can add together the following values:

Family

0 - Don't care
16 - Roman (variable width, serif, eg. Times Roman)
32 - Swiss (variable width, sans-serif, eg. Helvetica)
48 - Modern (fixed width, serif or sans-serif - eg. Courier)
64 - Script (cursive, etc.)
80 - Decorative (Old English, etc.)

Pitch

0 - Default
1 - Fixed pitch
2 - Variable pitch
8 - Mono font


Truetype

4 - Use Truetype font

A reasonable entry would be 0 - for don't care. Or, if you wanted a variable width, serif, truetype font, you could specify 20 (which is 16 + 4).

For more information, see:

http://www.gammon.com.au/mushclient/mw_text.htm

Lua example

-- Trebuchet MS, 28 point, bold
WindowFont (win, "heading", "Trebuchet MS", 28, true, false, false, false)


Return value

eNoSuchWindow - no such miniwindow

eCannotAddFont - cannot add it (perhaps font does not exist)

eOK - completed OK


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See Also ...

Topic

DOC_miniwindows Mini Windows

Functions

FNC_GetDeviceCaps GetDeviceCaps (Gets screen device capabilities)
FNC_SetCursor SetCursor (Changes the shape of the mouse cursor)
FNC_TextRectangle TextRectangle (Specifies the size of the rectangle in which text is displayed in the output window.)
FNC_WindowAddHotspot WindowAddHotspot (Adds a hotspot to a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowArc WindowArc (Draws an arc in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowBezier WindowBezier (Draws a Bézier curve in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowBlendImage WindowBlendImage (Blends an image into a miniwindow, using a specified blending mode)
FNC_WindowCircleOp WindowCircleOp (Draws ellipses, filled rectangles, round rectangles, chords, pies in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowCreate WindowCreate (Creates a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowCreateImage WindowCreateImage (Creates an image in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowDelete WindowDelete (Deletes a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowDeleteAllHotspots WindowDeleteAllHotspots (Deletes all hotspots from a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowDeleteHotspot WindowDeleteHotspot (Deletes a hotspot from a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowDragHandler WindowDragHandler (Adds a drag handler to a miniwindow hotspot)
FNC_WindowDrawImage WindowDrawImage (Draws an image into a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowDrawImageAlpha WindowDrawImageAlpha (Draws an image into a miniwindow respecting the alpha channel)
FNC_WindowFilter WindowFilter (Performs a filtering operation over part of the miniwindow.)
FNC_WindowFontInfo WindowFontInfo (Returns information about a font)
FNC_WindowFontList WindowFontList (Lists all fonts loaded into a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowGetPixel WindowGetPixel (Gets the colour of a single pixel in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowGradient WindowGradient (Draws a gradient in a rectangle)
FNC_WindowHotspotInfo WindowHotspotInfo (Returns information about a hotspot)
FNC_WindowHotspotList WindowHotspotList (Lists all hotspots installed into a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowHotspotTooltip WindowHotspotTooltip (Changes the tooltip text for a hotspot in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowImageFromWindow WindowImageFromWindow (Creates an image from another miniwindow)
FNC_WindowImageInfo WindowImageInfo (Returns information about an image)
FNC_WindowImageList WindowImageList (Lists all images installed into a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowImageOp WindowImageOp (Draws an ellipse, rectangle or round rectangle, filled with an image)
FNC_WindowInfo WindowInfo (Returns information about a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowLine WindowLine (Draws a line in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowList WindowList (Lists all miniwindows)
FNC_WindowLoadImage WindowLoadImage (Loads an image into a miniwindow from a disk file)
FNC_WindowMenu WindowMenu (Creates a pop-up menu inside a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowMergeImageAlpha WindowMergeImageAlpha (Merges an image into a miniwindow based on an alpha mask)
FNC_WindowPolygon WindowPolygon (Draws a polygon in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowPosition WindowPosition (Moves a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowRectOp WindowRectOp (Draws a rectangle in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowSetPixel WindowSetPixel (Sets a single pixel in a miniwindow to the specified colour)
FNC_WindowShow WindowShow (Shows or hides a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowText WindowText (Draws text into a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowTextWidth WindowTextWidth (Calculates the width of text in a miniwindow)
FNC_WindowWrite WindowWrite (Writes the contents of a miniwindow to disk as a graphics file)

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