Re: A question on the Editor demo

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Allen

Posted: 03/21/2003 8:55:31

Thanks Sergey,

BTW is there a way to get the font sizes to be filled in the combobox(items)

as what you have with the screen.fonts?(fontname).

Thanks.

"Sergey Tkachenko" <svt@trichview.com> wrote:

>Hi,

>This demo gets current font from the editor, in OnCurTextStyleChange event.

>procedure TForm1.rveCurTextStyleChanged(Sender: TObject);

>var fi: TFontInfo;

>begin

> ...

> fi := rvs.TextStyles[rve.CurTextStyleNo];

> cmbFont.ItemIndex := cmbFont.Items.IndexOf(fi.FontName);

> cmbFontSize.Text := IntToStr(fi.Size);

>....

>end;

>For simplification, cmbFontSize is filled with a set of predefined values:

>8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 36 48 72.

>This is ok for TrueType fonts (and most of Windows fonts are TrueType) which

>can be of any size.

>But for fixed-size fonts, only some font sizes produce a nice text

>(otherwise font will be stretched).

>You can find special FontName, FontSize, and FontCharset combo-boxes in

>RichViewActions:

>http://www.trichview.com/resources/actions/

>There is a demo how to use them. But you can use these combo-boxes even

>without actions.

>> Hi,

>> I tried out the Editor demo. I cannot understand how you parse the Windows

>> default font size and Font Name to the appropriate FontName Combobox and

>> fontsize combobox.

>> At start up:

>> procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);

>> begin

>> // Filling font names combobox

>> cmbFont.Items.Assign(Screen.Fonts);

>> New;

>> end;

>> =============================================

>> After the above codes filled the combo items with screen fonts, how do

you

>> get the default windows font and put it as the combo.text? And how do

you

>> get the default font size?

>> I have read through the demo but really cannot find the codes that do

the

>> text filling of default font and default font size.

>> Thanks for your time.