Text edit field with custom font

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Magnus Strand - 12 Dec 2004 12:40 GMT

Hi,

I have tried to make a text edit field with custom font with
PowerplantX but I have failed. I have used PPobToXML to generate
the .pobj file for my UI.

Is it possible with PowerplantX to do this?
Or can I use Carbon, Cocoa or Java?
I don't think I can use Java because I also need to
calculate string widths with different fonts.

Also I would like to know if I can enter special characters if I press control key
when entering characters on Mac OS X?

Regards,
Magnus Strand

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MW Ron - 16 Dec 2004 21:29 GMT

>Hi,
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>key
>when entering characters on Mac OS X?

Is this for something like PPx::EditUnicodeText? You can setup a
ControlFontStyleRec structure and then tell the control to use that font
with something like:

ControlFontStyleRec style = { 0 };
style.flags |= kControlUseThemeFontIDMask;
style.font = kThemeSmallEmphasizedSystemFont;

editText->SetDataTag(kControlEntireControl,
kControlEditTextStyleTag, sizeof(style), &style);

You can enter special characters, but normally not with the control key.
You can hit Option-s for an esset (ß) and Option-d for a delta () and
so on. Mac OS X has all sorts of ways to enter Unicode characters (some
apps have a Special Characters item in the Edit menu).

Ron With lots of help

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Text edit field with custom font