[Freetype] how to find the actual font name from windows

[Daniel B{ck]

Hi!

I'm kind of in the same situation as Ian trying to use freetype with
LOGFONTs. I looked throught the documentation and i didn't find any
Windows-specific interface (Similar to the Mac-specific interface) is
there a plan for this to come?

I would also be interested in that code snippet that gets a filename from
a LOGFONT.

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

At Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:19:26, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>At 11:10 AM 1/28/2002 +0100, Ian Brown wrote:
>>       this is only peripherally related to freetype, but this seemed
>like
>>the best list to ask. The bar code library that we use in our main
>>application has moved over to using freetype for the human readable
>text.
>>This means that I now have to pass it a font filename rather than a
>LOGFONT.
>>The problem is that the main application still uses LOGFONTs (needs to
>be
>>backwards compatible).
>>So, I need to find the actual font file that windows is using when I
>select
>>a particular LOGFONT. Does anyone have any ideas how to get this?
>>
>
>         I was just sent a code snippet that does exactly this - 
>LOGFONT->filename for use with FreeType.  I am looking at how best to 
>integrate it into the FT library much the same way as we do it on the Mac 
>OS side.
>
>         If you would like the code for yourself in the meantime, I can 
>certainly send it to you...
>
>
>>In our main application, I use GetFontData() to read the file ... but I
>need
>>to pass a filename to the library.
>
>         Actually, this will work fine - just use the memory calls 
>(FT_New_Memory_Face() instead of FT_New_Face()).
>
>
>Leonard
>