A Font question
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I have a problem drawing text using the D3DXCreateFont
function. I figured out that the problem lies in this function.
Everything compiles fine but the program won´t execute.
it look´s like this:
if ( FAILED( D3DXCreateFont( g_pd3dDevice, ?, g_pFont)))
return E_FAIL;
You can see that I put a ? where the handle to the font object is supposed to be. I tried NULL, 0 and HFONT. But nothing..
The SDK does not explain the handle to the font object HFONT
in enough detail.
Does anyone know a tutorial about the D3DXFONT interface.
hehe.. Well the point of the D3DXCreateFont is to create a d3d version of a Windows font so the second parameter is a handle to a windows font. Try this
D3DXCreateFont ( g_pd3dDevice, (HFONT)GetStockObject ( SYSTEM_FONT ), &g_pFont );
Now there are two things that are different. The second parameter which loads a windows system font and the third parameter which takes a Pointer to a Pointer of type D3DXFont. Now from your declaration of g_pFont I assume you declared it like this LPD3DXFONT g_pFont. So you need to pass in the that pointer &g_pFont..
Hope this helps
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Andrew T. Finnell
Software Engineer
e-Security Inc.
D3DXCreateFont ( g_pd3dDevice, (HFONT)GetStockObject ( SYSTEM_FONT ), &g_pFont );
Now there are two things that are different. The second parameter which loads a windows system font and the third parameter which takes a Pointer to a Pointer of type D3DXFont. Now from your declaration of g_pFont I assume you declared it like this LPD3DXFONT g_pFont. So you need to pass in the that pointer &g_pFont..
Hope this helps
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Andrew T. Finnell
Software Engineer
e-Security Inc.
If you don''t want to use a stock system font, use CreateFont() or CreateFontIndirect() with the parameters you want. In general, everything can be zero except for height, weight and the typeface (Arial, Tahoma, etc)
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