Hi, Peter
Max's code did the trick! Delphi Help does give examples whereas WinHelp does not. An example here would have saved a lot of time. Thanks for your help. I was just about to give up. Bobby Clarke Peter Luijer wrote: > > > Hi Bobby, > > I've never embedded fonts in an application myself. > The "normal" way would be by installing the required font alongside the > application when distributed. > > After some research I found out that fonts in resources need to be ordinal > values (so ABC isn't valid, but 123 is). > Next problem I encountered was that the compiler gave me an "Invalid Font > Format" error when I tried to compile this: > ========================== > 123 FONT "arial.ttf" > ========================== > > I also tried a fon-font, but that gave me the same error as well: > ========================== > 123 FONT "coure.fon" > ========================== > > The error suggests that there must be *some* font-format that is > supported, > although I can't find anything about that. > When I compile the resource with "TTF" as descriptor... > ========================== > 123 TTF "arial.ttf" > ========================== > ...it actually does compile, but I wonder if that would be the correct > resource-type for TTF-fonts. > > Doing a search about this topic only gave me very few leads, but this > one's > the most interesting: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misc/tree/ > <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misc/tree/> > browse_frm/month/1999-10?_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components > .misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1999-10%3F& > > Hope you'll succeed in your quest, > > Peter. > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] <mailto:delphi-en%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:delphi-en%40yahoogroups.com>]Namens > Bobby Clarke > Verzonden: zondag 28 juni 2009 13:56 > Aan: [email protected] <mailto:delphi-en%40yahoogroups.com> > Onderwerp: Re: [delphi-en] Failure to use font as a resource > > Hi Peter > > Thanks for the response. I have tried several things: > > In the rc file, I added double quotes round the file name. I suspect > that these are only necessary if there is a space in the file name > somewhere. Anyway the result was the same. > > I was aware of the {$R 'MyResource.res' 'MyResource.rc'} syntax but had > never got it to compile, even on Build and after modifying the rc file > in case the compiler was really clever. I think that the quotes are not > required. I had not tried it in the project file. I have now but still I > cannot get it to compile. However, this is not a problem, as I can > compile rc to res with the bat file containing brcc32.exe. > > In the rc file FONT gives an error whereas RT_FONT compiles without error. > > I had a look for my original discs but failed. I also looked for an > on-line download of Resource Workshop but didn't find it anywhere. > > Has anyone used Fonts in a Resource file successfully? > > Bobby > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.93/2206 - Release Date: 06/27/09 > 17:55:00 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
