Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!pyra.co.uk!pjr From: pjr@pyra.co.uk (Peter Ruczynski) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Font Resource saga .... Message-ID: <671195091.AA19152@flaccid> Date: 9 Apr 91 11:04:52 GMT References: <1991Apr9.100804.26613@qut.edu.au> Sender: news@pyra.co.uk (News system) Reply-To: pjr@pyra.co.uk (Peter Ruczynski) Organization: Pyramid Technology Ltd, Farnborough, ENGLAND Lines: 40 In article <1991Apr9.100804.26613@qut.edu.au> drift@qut.edu.au (Glenn Wallace) writes: >A while back there was talk about font resources. [...] >2) I thought ... stuff it, I'll put my fonts in my DLL, as they are reasonably > private to what my DLL is doing. So I do a AddFontResource in my LibMain > to make them available after load time as follows; > > nf = AddFontResource(MAKEINTRESOURCE(hInstance)); // something like that.. > > and I still get a BIG FAT 0 from AddFontResource. [...] > Anyone got any clues with AddFontResource???? Well this works for me, I can only imagine that you are not using the correct linker (I'm using the one that comes with C6.00) or have a bugette in your .def or .rc file somewhere (make sure you have read the readme.WRI file that comes with the SDK). I had no joy, though, when I tried to rc the font into my .exe, perhaps AddFontResource doesn't like fonts in the code that it is currently executing?!?! The other thing I do is that I have the file in the same directory as the .exe and the dll really has nothing else in it, although I don't see why either of these should make any difference. If you're still really stuck mail me and I'll see if I can knock together some source you could use and mail it to you (however, I hope you're not in a hurry, I'm fairly busy at the moment). >Help! Summary of mailed replies will be posted. As for compiling up a .fon file... ZERO I'm afraid. There are a few of us pursuing this at the moment, perhaps we should start up a comp.microsoft.windows.programmer.font.problems mailing list ;-) (just joking!!) I dare say there will be a spate of postings if we find or hear anything moing. -- -w--------- Pyramid Technology U.K. Peter Ruczynski ---www------- Pyramid House #include -----wwwww----- Farnborough pjr@pyra.co.uk -------wwwwwww--- Hants GU14 7PL England. Wot no funny comment :-)