Hi all. I'm currently adding a Lua console to my game, but I don't want to have to bundle a font file with the executable just for the console, so I'd like to load a built in Windows font instead. I've googled around, but come up blank on how to do this with Freetype2.
So my question is basically: How do I load a built-in Windows font into Freetype2 (using only libraries accessible from non-managed c++)? Ideally I'd like to load the system font used for command/dos windows.
Loading the Windows system font in freetype2
For getting fonts folder:
that will give you the font directory (usually %WINDIR%/Fonts)
As for the system terminal it uses a raster font, I would suggest just using using Courier New (or perhaps seeing if consolas is available on the computer and falling back to Courier New)
char buffer[MAX_PATH];SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_FONTS, NULL, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, buffer)that will give you the font directory (usually %WINDIR%/Fonts)
As for the system terminal it uses a raster font, I would suggest just using using Courier New (or perhaps seeing if consolas is available on the computer and falling back to Courier New)
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Quote:Original post by ender_341
For getting fonts folder:char buffer[MAX_PATH];SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_FONTS, NULL, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, buffer)
that will give you the font directory (usually %WINDIR%/Fonts)
As for the system terminal it uses a raster font, I would suggest just using using Courier New (or perhaps seeing if consolas is available on the computer and falling back to Courier New)
Awesome, thanks!
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