WD 12 iCreateFont style

The style parameter of iCreateFont takes integer constants or combination of constants.

So, iBold is 8 and iItalic is 4.

But iBold + iItalic is 84. :confused:

The other font commands do the same.

Is there a way to create this constant in code?

Hi Rich,

you're right, many of those constants are integers. It would be just as fine to put an integer variable there with a value of 84, it works like that for some other constants to my experience. Maybe, it works for the iCreateFont-Parameters too. Most of the parameters in WinDev are in fact combinations of ^2 numbers. 84 = 64 + 16 + 4. I suspect, the '4' means 'normal'. On run-time, the parameter is inspected by the WD-language interpreter and single bits of the parameter have the meaning of certain functions.

As a result of this, I could imagine that you have a font-file for a given project and create all the fonts for a printing procedure using a loop. Just an idea:

Hreadfirst(MyFontFile, MyFontNumber)
while not hout(MyFontFile)
iCreateFont(MyFontNumber, ..)
HreadNext(MyFontFile)
END

Kind regards,
Guenter

Guenter,

Thanks for the response.

I am doing something very similar and it seems to be working ok.