Hey all. I've been trying to improve my DirectX game with a few fancy freeware fonts I've found scattered around the Interwebs. I can embed them in an .rc file and get a valid handle to them at runtime no prob. But with DirectX, I'm used to using D3DXCreateFont() and D3DXCreateFontIndirect(), both of which take a font name and load the font from c:\windows\font. Is there some way I can get a valid DirectX font from the TrueType I'm embedding in the resource file, or do I have to use an installer program to install the font, then load it like any other? I'm kind of hoping there's an option for the former; I could figure out how to do it with NSIS or something like it I imagine, but I'd like to know if it's possible to just keep the fonts in the binary.

Wow, I forgot I made this thread. Been a busy couple of days. ^_^

I've heard of AddFontMemResourceEx(); maybe I just didn't pay enough attention to it. So it will register the font in some way that D3DXCreateFontIndirect() will be able to pick up on it? I can't try it right now, but if that's so, that's pretty much what I'm looking for, thanks. [cool]

Yup, it worked. I'm going to detail this real quick in case someone else ever needs it; took longer than it really should have for me to clue in. [embarrass]

So basically my resource file is this:

     1 FONT "WME.ttf"

I load it like this ...

     HRSRC res = FindResource(instance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(1), RT_FONT);     HANDLE m_fonthandle;     if (res)      {          HGLOBAL mem = LoadResource(instance, res);          void *data = LockResource(mem);          size_t len = SizeofResource(instance, res);          DWORD nFonts;          m_fonthandle = AddFontMemResourceEx(data, len, NULL, &nFonts);          if(m_fonthandle == 0)               MessageBox(NULL, "Font add fails", "Error", MB_OK);     }

Then I create a font for DirectX in the usual manner ...

     LPD3DXFONT myfont = NULL;     D3DXFONT_DESC FontDesc = {15, 0, 400, 0, false, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_TT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_PITCH, "My Font"};     D3DXCreateFontIndirect(pDevice, &FontDesc, &myfont);

And now I can use it like any other ...

     myfont->DrawText(NULL, "I win at embedded fonts",  -1, &(MakeRect(600, 2, 200, 100)), DT_LEFT, 0xffffffff);

Clean up my crap when I'm done:

     RemoveFontMemResourceEx(m_fonthandle);

Works perfectly. [cool] Thanks for the help.