Edit Control Font

[Bruce Peaslee]

I can't get the font in my edit control to switch to wingdings. Everything else (size, boldness) works.

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CEdit *pEdit;

...

pEdit = GetControl(RD_txtStars);
pEdit->SetColor(GREEN,BLACK);
SetFont("Wingdings",10,600,0,RD_txtStars);
pEdit->SetText("M"); // shows as an "M", not a bomb


[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Probably needs a different character set....SYMBOL_CHARSET perhaps.

pEdit->SetFont("Wingdings",10,600,SYMBOL_CHARSET);

[Bruce Peaslee]

... at the feet of the master.ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, 

Thanks.

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Anytime

[LarryMc]

Bruce,
Don't you just hate it when he makes it look so easy.

[Bruce Peaslee]

Bruce,
Don't you just hate it when he makes it look so easy.

Actually, I hate it when he gives us an answer I just don't get.ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, 

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Fonts can have multiple character sets.  If you ask Windows for a font and specify a character set that doesn't exist it will pick a "closest matching" font.  "windings" only has a SYMBOL_CHARSET and the default used by SetFont is ANSI_CHARSET.  So in this case windows looked for the closest matching font that had the same dimensions and characteristics.

The easiest way to tell what character set a font supports is to open wordpad.  Chose the font you want and then pull down the third combo box.  Western = ANSI/UNICODE

You can also use the font selector in "editor options".  The "Script" setting is the character set.

[Bruce Peaslee]

I understood that answer - I was just commenting in general.