Re: Tfont

I like the Idea of string it in the registry, but I have no idea how to do
that, but it sure sounds a great idea. Thank you for your time

"Maarten Wiltink" <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > is it possible to turn a tFont into a string so I can save what the
> > font of a certain component is
> >
> > I am want to store the fonts and background colors, so that when the
> > appication restarts it will load the attributes for me.
>
> Where are you storing it? I write things to the Registry; my code
> uses a new key for a font and puts name, size, colour, bold, italic,
> underline, and strikeout in a value each. If you're bent on having a
> single string you could encode it as XML or CSS or any format of your
> own devising. (CSS would be rather nice, I think.)
>
> Windows itself saves font information in the Registry as binary dumps
> of TLogFontW records. Forty lines of Pascal to decode it or possibly
> (I've not tried very hard) a single CreateFontIndirect call.
>
> It's _always_ a good time to be extending your standard library.
>
> Groetjes,
> Maarten Wiltink
>
>


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