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Coding with windows fonts

Started by steve_- Dec 15, 2001 at 11:31 AM 2 replies 350+ views

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Dec 15, 2001 at 11:31 AM

Hi, I want to make some effects with particles. One of the effects is particle letters, which explode or something like that. For that I need to get the dimensions of a font so I know where to put the particles, I can do it with an extra bitmap and read out the stuff. But I want to keep things as small as possible. I know only very little about MFC or other windows-code stuff (I''m a freebsd guy). I thought of drawing it to a DC first and read it out again, but I think there are better ways... Can anybody give me any hints (don''t say "look at msdn", please and C or C++ would be nice, not necessary though)? Thx, Steve PS Sorry for my awful english.

Dean Harding

Dec 15, 2001 at 3:46 PM

I think drawing the character to a DC and the using that to work out the positions is probably the easiest way. Using a TypeType library, you could probably extract the B-Spline edges of the font and work from there. But that''d be far more difficult, and not much more flexible. I mean, if you want a higher resolution, then you just increase the size of your DC.

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Dec 16, 2001 at 5:09 AM

Thanks,

I saw something with b-splines in FR-11 (Farb-Rausch), it''s a demo with source. But since I don''t know enough about this stuff, I guess I''ll stick with the DC''s.

Steve

Brannon

Dec 16, 2001 at 4:04 PM

You can always try out the FreeType2 library (www.freetype.org). It will render glyphs into a bitmap (not a DC), that you can then examine. I believe you can also get at much more detailed info for the typeface, but I haven''t played with that yet.

-Brannon

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