RequestFont ( )
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Description
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Opens the standard font picker and returns a font handle, or 0 on cancel. Requires Extended language mode. The dialog lists the installed screen fonts with size, bold and italic options, starting from the standard UI font. The result is an ordinary Blitz font handle - exactly what LoadFont returns - so you can hand it straight to SetGadgetFont or SetTextAreaFont for gadgets, or to SetFont for 2D text on a canvas. font=RequestFont() If font Then SetTextAreaFont notes,font Always check for 0 before using the handle - cancelling returns no font. Like the other requesters the dialog is modal, owned by your active GUI window, and posts begin/end-modal events ($2004/$2005) to the shared event queue. See also: SetGadgetFont, SetTextAreaFont, RequestColor, LoadFont, SetFont. |
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