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I'm looking for a quick and easy solution to allow a user to select the font/size for text. It should be achievable using one of the windows DLL's but I haven't managed to find which one brings up the font select (similar to the colour picker example).

Sandy

I just ended up using a couple of list boxes. One for the font and another for the font size. I gave a selection of the most common font types, formatting each line with the font, so it looks something like a real font selection...if you close one eye and squint with the other.

Sandy

You mean if "you cross your eyes, and dot your tees".

Good work. Very creative. DLL's sound promising, but where does one find the documentation of the parameters to pass and the functions with-in? (for Opus access of course).

Good cheer.

Trying to find information on DLLs is very difficult. If you look at the exported functions from the user32.DLL?? that's the one which is used to get the windows message boxes....there are 732 functions in that DLL, which I assume would all work with Opus, but trying to find the syntax of calling the functions (that I can translate to Opus) is almost impossible. Perhaps there is a reference document somewhere, but so far I haven't found it.
Fortunately there is nearly always an easier/quicker way to do things in Opus.
Using the list boxes works very well. I store the text selected in a variable, rather than using the index and use the variable to set the typeface and size....but the proper windows font selection dialogue via a DLL would be much better

Sandy

Did a little exploring. Seems 'fonts' might be handled thru gdi32.dll.

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=4747

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/gdi32.EnumFonts explore the left menu tree

or:
comdlg32.dll Common Dialog Box Library
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Windows_API

Agreed.
I have enough challenge getting code from Opus help files to Opus script "landing strip" where everything is already paved.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! C#..........grabs politically correct religious symbol of faith (appropriate to reader) and holds it in front of screen!!!!!





I'll have a serious look at the links later

Thanks!!!!!