Re: Programming with gtkmm: problem with FontSelectionDialog example

[Wenzel <wgwenzel t-online de>]

Wenzel schrieb:
> I'm using gtkmm under Windows XP.
>
> I'm able to compile and run the FontSelectionDialog example.
>
> But pressing the button "sans Normal | 0" yields:
>
> "Pango-ERROR **: Unable to create Win32 cairo scaled font.
> This means out of memory or a cairo/fontconfig/FreeType bug
> aborting..."
>
> There shouldn't be an out of memory problem as I have 2 GB.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Werner
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I got round the problem by adding a font size to "sans". This works 
fine. Another way to avoid the error is to leave out any font detail. 
Apparently - under Windows!? - a font name without a font size defaults 
to "<font_name> Normal | 0" with a zero font size causing the trouble.

Werner Wenzel