[Bug 15253] Bitmap Font Problem

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15253





--- Comment #2 from Giuseppe Adamo <giuseppe.adamo at gmail.com>  2008-09-16 04:38:39 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> There is no need for the test program, it's enough to install the font
> file, add it to the registry, and run notepad (Edit -> Font).
> 
> The problem is that the font is broken from the Wine point of view,
> it has charset set to 2 (SYMBOL_CHARSET). If Windows handles that, Wine
> should be fixed, but as a workarond you could set the font charset to 0.
> 

First of all thank you very much for the suggestion. I changed the charset code
from 2 to 0 and this way the attached example, BMPFontTest.zip works fine.
But, when I tried to use the fixed font with my VB6 program it still had
visualization problems. Again I started to simplify the problem and wrote two
simple VB6 applications that you can find attached to this thread.

The first one, BMPFontTest_2.zip, simply has a label control dropped on a form
with the property font set at DESIGN-TIME. This example has no lines of code
and doesn't work.

The second one, BMPFontTest_3.zip, is the same application as the above one but
it sets the font name ad size at RUN-TIME. This example works fine !

I don't know the reason of this behavior but settings fonts properties for
controls at run time is a good workaround. It seems, but it's only an
impression, that all the design-time properties for fonts are ignored or not
set. When using bitmap fonts, the problem is evident and visible since nothing
or strange characters are printed; but when using true type fonts the result is
that, apparently, default fonts with default sizes are used.


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