Fixed Font for LINUX Program

[heinz.goldbach]

Hello,
i need a little help.
I want to use a fixed Font for a LINUX Program.
Because the "Multiline" isn´t possible for Linux, it is necessary to use a fixed Font to get
good fixed outputs.

In Windows i use for example:

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If LoadFont(10,"courier",16)
      SetGadgetFont(#PB_Default,FontID())   
EndIf

This shows in LINUX no effects.
It is only possible to change the size of the font in Text or Button Gadgets but not the font itself.

Now my Questions:
1. What is to do, to change the Font.
2. Is it possible to "include" a font into the Program like IncludeBinary?

[Beach]

Please try it this way:

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MonoFont = LoadFont(#PB_Any,"monospace",10)

If MonoFont = #False 
  MessageRequester("Error","Could not load system font")
EndIf

  
If OpenWindow(0,174,8,250,100,#PB_Window_SystemMenu|#PB_Window_ScreenCentered,"Font Test")
  If CreateGadgetList(WindowID(0))
    TextGadget(1,10,10,240,25,"This text is mono spaced...")
    UseFont(MonoFont)
    SetGadgetFont(1,FontID())
  EndIf
EndIf

Repeat : Until WaitWindowEvent() = #PB_EventCloseWindow

[heinz.goldbach]

Thank you,
i have test it first today ( a new LINUX installation was necessary).
It works with a little problem.
The Text in the MessageRequester and in Frame3DGadget shows no effect.
It is always the Standard LINUX Font.
I work with the gtk2. Maybe that is the Problem.

And there is another interesting thing.
When you wrote:

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MonoFont = LoadFont(#PB_Any,"monospace",10) 
If MonoFont = #False
  MessageRequester("Error","Could not load system font")
EndIf 

You never get #False or #True.
The debugger shows for example 141131488.
Possible a "Distrubition Problem" (SUSE 9.3).
With 4.0 everything, i hope, get better.

[ts-soft]

MessageRequester allways use SystemFont. Is not a Gadget, is a SystemDialog

#False = 0
#True = <> 0

141131488 ist #True

[heinz.goldbach]

Hello ts-soft

When i wrote:

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MonoFont = LoadFont(#PB_Any,"FIFA2006",10)
If MonoFont = #False
  MessageRequester("Error","Could not load system font")
EndIf 

or

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MonoFont = LoadFont(#PB_Any,"FIFA2006",10)
If MonoFont = #True
  MessageRequester("Error","Could not load system font")
EndIf 

the MessageRequester doesn´t shown.
I don´t know why??

[J. Baker]

Hey Beach, have you tried loading fonts in the latest Ubuntu (v6.06)? I can't seem to get it to work.

[walker]

Hi,

I think, you can use a fontname like "monospace" only, when compiling with gtk2 as subsystem... otherwise you have to use this format:
-bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Which is the old gtk-format for a fontname...

[J. Baker]

Thanks walker!

[Beach]

Sorry J.. I'm out of town and my server I normally VNC into when I am away from home now has Xgl/Compiz on it.

[J. Baker]

No problem Beach!