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From: ISSLCK@NUSVM.BITNET (Law Chee Keong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: FONT PROBLEMS
Message-ID: <8911080816.AA01695@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 89 08:31:31 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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This is a question about fonts.

Given a variable of type XFontStruct *, I must determine what kind of font
it is, (eg. its name, whether it is italic, bold or normal, and also
its point size).

Now, I am able to tell its point size through the XFontProp stucture, but
how am I suppose to know its name (in char* format) and whether it is bold,
normal or italic?

A related question to this problem has to do with the Font id (fid) field in
the XFontStruct variable. My guess is that the font id is a unique identifier
to identify the font structure and *NOT* the type of the font right?

So let's say I do this:

XFontStruct *font1, *font2;

font1 = XLoadQueryFont( dpy, "Fixed" );
font2 = XLoadQueryFont( dpy, "Fixed" );

Okay, what I get is font1->fid != font2->fid.

In other words, although font1 and font2 are actually identical fonts, their
fid is different. What I need is some kind of mechanism  which tells me that
font1 and font2 are one and the same. (ie. they are the same font type)

Can anyone give me help and suggestions?? I am at a lost as to how to get
around this font identification problem.

-- C.K. Law
   Institute of Systems Science, NUS
   Singapore