Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!beno!denio
From: denio@beno.CSS.GOV (Dennis O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Finding name of installed font
Keywords: Fonts, string length in pixels
Message-ID: <48616@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 8 Feb 90 18:03:45 GMT
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How does one determine the name of the currently-loaded font?  

Specifically, what I'm trying to do is set up a sequence of Xw widgets
as follows:  statictext statictext valuator, all inside a rowcol.  The width
of each statictext is to be determined by the length of certain strings.
To do this, it looks like I have to:

    o  specify the widths of the statictext widgets, for which I must

    o  determine the width in pixels of a certain string to be displayed.
       This seems to be doable using
           width = XTextWidth (fontstruct, string, string_length)
       for which I need to

    o  find out the fontstruct using
           fontstruct = XLoadQueryFont (display, fontname)
       for which I need to

    o  learn the name of the installed font.

How do I do this last (the last shall be first ...) thing?  I know how to
do this if I've installed the font myself first; my problem is to have the
procedure find the name of the installed font for itself.

Is there an easier way around all this?

Dennis O'Neill
denio@seismo.css.gov, denio@s3reston.scubed.com  703-476-5197