LOGFONT problems

[xandaz]

    Hello guys and thanks in advance. I've initialized a logfont structure but masm errors. Initializer must be a string or single item:

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UCSTR               FontName,"fixedsys.fon",0
logf    LOGFONT     <32,32,0,0,FW_DONTCARE,0,0,0,\
                    DEFAULT_CHARSET,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,\
                    DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH+FF_DONTCARE,offset FontName>
                                       



[jj2007]

Try this, it works fine with UAsm:

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logf    LOGFONT     <32,32,0,0,FW_DONTCARE,0,0,0,\
                    DEFAULT_CHARSET,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,\
                    DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH+FF_DONTCARE,<"fixedsys.fon">>

[xandaz]

     Ty jj. i'm going to try.

[xandaz]

       Errors anyway. Constant value too large. ty for help jj.

[xandaz]

   i'm using UNICODE. Didn't realise lfFaceName actually included the string inside the LOGFONT STRUCT. do you know what macro to use with it?
   ty.

[jj2007]

   i'm using UNICODE.

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logf    LOGFONTW     <32,32,0,0,FW_DONTCARE,0,0,0,\
                    DEFAULT_CHARSET,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,\
                    DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH+FF_DONTCARE, <0>>


Then copy the string to its location. Why do you need Unicode here? There are hardly any fonts around with a Unicode name. You would have to use a resource string or similar to get true Unicode. Of course, I could show you the simple MasmBasic solution, but some troll will show up and aggress me...

[aw27]

logf    LOGFONTW     <32,32,0,0,FW_DONTCARE,0,0,0,\
                    DEFAULT_CHARSET,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,\
                    DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH+FF_DONTCARE, {"f","i","x","e","d","s","y","s",".","f","o","n",0}>   

and there are other ways but I need to leave before JJ triggers the spam button.

[xandaz]

   AW, that seems to work. I had to use the index registers to fill the damn structure...ty.

[xandaz]

   yeah JJ. Thats what i did. worked fine. ty