windows fonts for console

Hi,

I'm pretty sick of having to recompile everytime I need to modify a variable, so I'm implementing a console right now, I have a couple of questions:
1. I'll use one of Windows fonts along with wglUseFontBitmaps, to make my life easier, I'll use a font with fixed character width, will Courier work for me? (I'm open to suggestions)
2. CreateFont first 2 variables are height and width according to MSDN, how to convert them into pixel width and height? (to be used for calculations to align words/lines correctly)

thanks in advance.

Two things. The fonts are already in pixels, to my understanding. Do you mean in points (like 12 pt font, 30 pt, etc.) like in a word processor? If so, the formula is:

Code:

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ptSize = -MulDiv(ptSize, GetDeviceCaps(someHDC, LOGPIXELSY), 72);
// someHDC should be an HDC object

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Hope that helps.

The other thing is, there is no way that I have found yet to re-draw fonts, bitmaps, or any other API graphics if a console font is minimized. They will simply vanish, so just be aware of that. And if you find (or have found) a way to make it stop that, I'd be much abliged if you'd tell me :). Thanks.

Brendan

When I render the console, I need to specify coords for every word / line, those coords are going to be in pixels, let's say that the screen resolution is 1024x768, I need to know how many pixels of those one letter will take.
I didn't get your second point, what do you mean by a font being minimized? Do you mean specifying a low value for size or something?

I'm thinking of switching to texture fonts, like the one in NeHe tutorials, I'll see if I can get wgl fonts working well, if not, I'll switch.
Is there any difference in performance / quality between wgl and texture fonts? I only know that texture fonts are protable.
Thanks in advance.

Oops, my bad lol, I meant if the console WINDOW is minimized. Sorry. As to your question...er...no idea, sorry.

Brendan

I use OpenGL and fonts don't vanish when I minimize.
When does this happen? Win32 API or what?

Wow...ok I think I totally mis-understood you. I thought you meant you wanted use fonts in a console program, but I'm thinking that's not what you mean. Lol...oops.

Brendan

Hehe, I guess it's my fault, should have said it's OpenGL ;) never mind :)
Any one else?