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From: wolf@netcom.COM (Buckskin Tech.)
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Subject: Re: Previous post on Font Resource saga ....
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.233034.27564@netcom.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 23:30:34 GMT
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drift@qut.edu.au (Glenn Wallace) writes:

>Ahem. I can get AddFontResource to work if I pass it the name of my
>library that has the fonts in. It returns 16.

>If I used the advertised feature of passing a handle to the library in the
>low word, high word=0 (using MAKEINTRESOURCE as shown in my previous post)
>it returns 0. <sigh>

>Has anyone used AddFontResource _WITHOUT_ specifying the name of the lib?

Maybe it's just me, but according to my Microsoft SDK TIPS.TXT file, it
warns against using handles with AddFontResource.  I quote:

* ----------------------------------
* 1.10  Font as a resource in an EXE
* ----------------------------------
*  
* Although not encouraged, fonts may be added to the resources
* of an application.  To access these fonts use the function
* AddFontResource.  Use the filename of the .EXE file as the
* parameter to this function.  This is in contrast to 2.x,
* where you could do a FindResource call using RT_FONTDIR,
* load the resource and then add the font resource using the
* handle returned from LoadResource.
 
 - Phil