I've been able to use windows fonts with aggpas with the following code:
agg^.Font('ConsolaB.ttf' ,45 );
agg^.Text(300 ,100 ,'Text Here' );
and it works fine if I copy the font to the same folder as my program. I'm
wondering how I can just use standard windows fonts without copying them... but
not assuming windows is installed in c:\windows
agg^.Font('C:\Windows\Fonts\ConsolaB.ttf' ,45 )
works fine, but as I mentioned I can't be sure windows is installed in
C:\Windows
I would like to do something like:
agg^.Font('%windir%\Fonts\ConsolaB.ttf' ,45 );
but of course that won't work because the %windir% variable only works in batch
files.
Is there some other way I can capture the install directory of windows, or the
system so I can make this work properly?
Also, while I was tinkering with this, I also wanted to see what differences
there are between Freetype and Windows True Type fonts, and I noticed something
odd..
If I compile with {$DEFINE AGG2D_USE_FREETYPE } it works fine... but if I
compile with it commented out, it does work, and I get text on the screen, but
the font is not the one I selected. It seems to be a default font that I can't
change. Does the font need to be defined differently if using Win32 TT font
engine? I am using the current 'develop' branch of fpGUI version of aggpas
now. I have not tried it with the release version.
I'm also wondering if there is a way to specify the font by the name used by
windows applications, or is that more complicated than it is really worth?
James
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