Re: Font question

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/20/2009 10:04 PM, ikorot earthlink net wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> Sorry to bring up this old thread, but I need to understand this...
>
> I'm trying to create a font property page to be used in my app
> in the property page dialog.
>
> So I created a layout with the 3 list boxes for "Font Name", "Font Style"
> and "Font Size". I can fill out the "Font Name" list box. Now, when I select
> the string as a font name, I should retrieve all available sizes for this
> particular font nameand re-fill the "Font Size" list box.
>
> I can get the font description using:
>
> PangoFontDescription *desc = pango_font_description_from_string( name );
>
> but after that I'm completely lost.
>
> I was thinking about using pango_font_face_list_sizes(), since this function
> differentiate between "TrueType" and not "TrueType" font, so that I can use
> a list of constant numbers, but I don't know how to pass PangoFontDescription
> to this function.

Hi,

Right now the PangoFontFamily and PangoFontFace instances cannot be acquired 
using a font description and can only be enumerated.  Sorry about that.


behdad



> Any help will be really appreciated.
>
> Thank you.