Thread: saving font

I have an application that uses fonts, user can change the look of fonts and
their color. I want to save those font settings in a file, so each time user runs
my program the same fonts appear...
I have a LOGFONT struct full of data that needs to be saved in a file, and loaded.
Heres how i do it:

Code:

// General
using namespace std;
#include <fstream>
LOGFONT font;
...........
...........
// Loading
ifstream fin;
fin.open("config.txt");
fin>>font.lfFaceName;
fin>>font.lfCharSet;
fin>>font.lfClipPrecision;
fin>>font.lfEscapement;
fin>>font.lfOrientation;
fin>>font.lfHeight;
fin>>font.lfItalic;
fin>>font.lfStrikeOut;
fin>>font.lfUnderline;
fin>>font.lfOutPrecision;
fin>>font.lfPitchAndFamily;
fin>>font.lfQuality;
fin>>font.lfWeight;
fin>>font.lfWidth;
...........
...........
// Saving
ofstream fout;
fout.open("config.txt");
fout<<font.lfFaceName<<endl;
fout<<font.lfCharSet<<endl;
fout<<font.lfClipPrecision<<endl;
fout<<font.lfEscapement<<endl;
fout<<font.lfOrientation<<endl;
fout<<font.lfHeight<<endl;
fout<<font.lfItalic<<endl;
fout<<font.lfStrikeOut<<endl;
fout<<font.lfUnderline<<endl;
fout<<font.lfOutPrecision<<endl;
fout<<font.lfPitchAndFamily<<endl;
fout<<font.lfQuality<<endl;
fout<<font.lfWeight<<endl;
fout<<font.lfWidth<<endl;

And this doesn't work as always... Well sometimes it does, but mostly the
structure is filled with very wierd data.
Why doesn't this work? How should it work?

Doesn't anyone have an idea how to save font?
Any way of doing it would be cool... just that i can save it somehow.

Make sure you check that the lfFaceName member of the LOGFONT struct does not exceed 32 characters, including the NULL terminator as described for that struct in msdn. You should check before you save and when you load the LOGFONT to and from file.

I have noted that font's with short names are working. This seems to be the problem.
Should i then add this line

Code:

font.lfFaceName[31] = NULL;

before saving the font? ( Tryed and not working )
I'm using the CreateFontIndirect(&font); function to create font from my LOGFONT structure.
How can i shorten this lfFaceName anyway, and is it going to work shortened?

Use the constant provided since it's defined anyway:

Code:

font.lfFaceName[LF_FACESIZE-1]='\0';

>>How can i shorten this lfFaceName<<

You're not looking to shorten lfFaceName, you're looking to make sure that you don't exceed its array bounds by reading something into it from file that may be longer than LF_FACESIZE characters.

ok, now it all works.
thanks.