Font Size as a variable not working?

[Phil Pendlebury]

Hi there,

I am trying to pass font and size as a variable:

In my .ini file I have :-

def_font=Arial
def_fontsize=6

If I read these values to 2 variables for example "deffont" and "deffontsize"

I can then show the values are read by using a message:

msg>%deffont%,%deffontsize%

Result in the message box: Arial,6

All OK so far.

However, when added into the Dialog:

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Font=%deffont%,%deffontsize%

The font just shows as if "Font=" was added, in other words wrong.

I also tried:

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Let>AllFont=%deffont%,%deffontsize%

and then in the dialog

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Font=%AllFont%

and then

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Font=AllFont

Same results for all, it seems to be being ignored.

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong or will MS simply not accept font and font size as an argument?

Thanks.

[JRL]

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong or will MS simply not accept font and font size as an argument?

I don't think you're doing anything wrong, looks to me like you've found an anomaly. I tried both version 10 and version 11 and both accept the font description in the dialog block as long as the description is not designated by a variable. If you enter an explicit font face and font size then you will be successful.

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Font=Arial,6

If you have version 10 you can circumvent this problem by using the SetDialogObjectFont> function. It sets the font on each individual object in the dialog rather than setting the entire dialog. It also gives you control over color, bold, italic, underline and strikeout. For Example:

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Let>def_font=Arial
Let>def_fontsize=6
SetDialogObjectFont>dialog1,msbutton1,%def_font%,%def_fontsize%,1,123456

Will set the first dialog1 button's text to a bold 6 point green Arial font.

[Phil Pendlebury]

Hi JRL,

Thanks for that.

The problem is my application has about 15 dialogs and hundreds of separate objects. It would be kind of crazy to use that function for every single object.

So it appears that this is a bug of sorts then, or at least a feature missing.

Request: Ability to set font and font size by variable.

[Phil Pendlebury]

Damn it even this doesn't work:

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Let>fonts=1

// 1 = Small, 2 = Medium, 3 = Large


Inside Dailog:

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IF>fonts=1
  Font=Arial,6
ENDIF
IF>fonts=2
  Font=Arial,10
ENDIF
IF>fonts=3
  Font=Arial,16
ENDIF

The font is just set to the last value every time, it seems to ignore the IF-ENDIF

[Marcus Tettmar]

You can't put script code or logic inside a dialog block. A dialog block only does one thing - creates the dialog. Any logic or code inside a dialog block will be ignored.

Anyway, regarding issuing a variable for the font info I will look to see if we can improve this for v11.

I think another solution is a mod to SetDialogObjectFont which if the object name is omitted it will set the font for the entire dialog instead.

[Phil Pendlebury]

Thanks for the reply Marcus.

[jpuziano]

Anyway, regarding issuing a variable for the font info I will look to see if we can improve this for v11.

I think another solution is a mod to SetDialogObjectFont which if the object name is omitted it will set the font for the entire dialog instead.

Thanks Marcus for considering this improvement... it sounds like either one would do the trick... and thanks Phil for posting on this issue.