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C++ Windows Programming

You're reading from   C++ Windows Programming Develop real-world applications in Windows.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464224
Length 588 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Hello, Small World! 3. Building a Tetris Application 4. Working with Shapes and Figures 5. The Figure Hierarchy 6. Building a Word Processor 7. Keyboard Input and Character Calculation 8. Building a Spreadsheet Application 9. Formula Interpretation 10. The Framework 11. The Document 12. The Auxiliary Classes 13. The Registry, Clipboard, Standard Dialogs, and Print Preview 14. Dialogs, Controls, and Page Setup A. Rational and Complex Numbers

The Font class


The Font class is a wrapper class for the Win32 API LOGFONT structure. The structure holds a large set of properties; however, we only take into consideration the fields for the font's name and size and whether the font is italic, bold, or underlined; the other fields are set to zero. The system font is the font where all fields in the LOGFONT structure are set to zero, which results in the standard font of the system. Finally, the Font class also includes a Color object.

Font.h

namespace SmallWindows { 
  class Font; 
  extern const Font SystemFont; 
 
  class Font { 
    public: 

The default constructor sets the name to the empty string and all other values to zero, resulting in the system font, usually 10 points Arial. The size of the font is given in typographic points (1 point = 1/72 of an inch = 1/72 * 25.4 mm ≈ 0.35 mm). A font can also be initialized by, or assigned to, another font:

      Font(); 
      Font(String name, int size...
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