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decard

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decard

hi,
I'm trying to read Notepad's settings from registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad). Notepad stores font size in a value named "iPointSize". But how can I convert this value, to create font with this size (I mean to calculate LOGFONT.lfHeight variable, to pass it to CreateFontIndirect). Question

thanks

27 Jul 2004, 14:17

scientica
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scientica

I'd guess it's an ingeter (thus 32-bit, unless it's like wchar_t (the it's 16-bit), PointSize sounds like '"pt" size' of the font - if that's of any help to you.
(/me don't have windows to check that regkey)

28 Jul 2004, 12:30

crc

Joined: 21 Jun 2003
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Location: Penndel, PA [USA]

crc

iPointSize is 10 times the current size of the font (example: iPointSize=100, the font=10 points). Something like the following code should be all you need to convert from iPointSize to actual points:

Code:

mov eax, [iPointSize]
mov ebx, 10
div eax

28 Jul 2004, 12:46

decard

Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: Poland

decard

thanks, but how can I convert this value to LOGFONT.lfHeight? That's what win32.hlp says:

Quote:

lfHeight

Specifies the height, in logical units, of the font's character cell or character. The character height value (also known as the em height) is the character cell height value minus the internal-leading value. The font mapper interprets the value specified in lfHeight in the following manner:

Value Meaning
> 0 The font mapper transforms this value into device units and matches it against the cell height of the available fonts.
0 The font mapper uses a default height value when it searches for a match.
< 0 The font mapper transforms this value into device units and matches its absolute value against the character height of the available fonts.

actually I just don't understand it Confused

28 Jul 2004, 14:23

Frank

Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Posts: 100

Frank

Hi decard,

in the section that you already quoted, WIN32 help further says:

Code:

For the MM_TEXT mapping mode, you can use the following formula to specify a height for a font with a given point size:

lfHeight = -MulDiv(PointSize, GetDeviceCaps(hDC, LOGPIXELSY), 72);

LOGPIXELSY is the number of pixels per logical inch along the screen height. Your program should determine LOGPIXELSY, multiply it with the point size that you already have, and divide the product by 72. Then multiply with -1.

Here is a table of hardcoded values that I use on a set of computers where I know LOGPIXELSY to be 96:

Code:

hFonts  dd      -11, -13, -16, -19, -21, -24, -32, -64
;               ( 8,  10,  12,  14,  16,  18,  24,  48 point font size)
                sizeof.hFonts = $ - hFonts

Regards

Frank

28 Jul 2004, 15:26

decard

Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: Poland

decard

well, it's a bit more complicated than I thought, but this simple lookup table should be a good solution for me Wink

.

Thanks.

29 Jul 2004, 15:23

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