Hi Chris,
At 12:00am -0700 00-07-22, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: Re: Help writing Japanese apps
>From: "Chris Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:33:26 +0100
>X-Message-Number: 10
>
>Hi John / everyone,
>
>On similar lines, how does one use any other kind of font than the standard
>ones? I would like to use a fixed width font, but couldn't find any
>infomation on how to do this. I read somthing about a 'special' kind of
>file that you can make, and then 'add' to the resource?
Ultimately you need to have a resource in your app that contains font
data in the appropriate Palm OS format. You then lock down this
resource and pass it to FntDefineFont, using a font id >=
fntAppFontCustomBase.
Getting a custom resource such as this into your PRC is a separate
topic, one that has been beaten to death on this list. Various
techniques exist, depending on your platform/development environment.
For example, on a Mac I'd use ResEdit to create a Mac OS resource
file with the data, then add that to my CodeWarrior project file. I
could also create a Rez-format text file (xxx.r).
Creating the correct font data is yet another topic, one which has
also been discussed ad nauseam on this list. In a nutshell the format
is virtually the same as the Mac 'FONT' resource format, but each
character glyph's width has to be equal to the actual character
width, including any trailing white space.
Perhaps it's time for a KnowledgeBase article that answers this
specific question.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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