Terminal Font ?

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We have used Terminal Font in the past with Microsoft tools like VS6 / VB6,
etc...

We need to use the Terminal Font in .net and on Windows XP machines. It
appears that the Terminal Font is no longer available for use. Can anyone
shed some light on this subject? There are some ascii characters that are
displayed with this font and not with most other fonts.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
JerryM
 
JerryWEC said:
We have used Terminal Font in the past with Microsoft tools like VS6 / VB6,
etc...

We need to use the Terminal Font in .net and on Windows XP machines. It
appears that the Terminal Font is no longer available for use. Can anyone
shed some light on this subject? There are some ascii characters that are
displayed with this font and not with most other fonts.
Click to expand...

All genuine ASCII characters are displayed in almost all text (rather
than symbol) fonts I know of.

Chances are you don't *really* mean ASCII characters: which characters
*do* you mean?
 
I don't think there is such a thing as 'terminal' font. (By default it was
courier I believe)
However you could try 'Consolas', very good looking monospace font (when
clear type is on) .
It's a download from MSDN.
 
Hi Jerry,

It seems Terminal font will look different in different applications on
Windows 2000 or later:

#Terminal (font) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_(font)


If you're looking for a monospace font in IDE, besides Courier New and
Consolas from Microsoft, you can also find following monospace fonts useful:

#Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/


Let me know if I've misunderstood your question.


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Jon,

I'm not sure. We need to display the Ascii character's 10 and 13. I'm not
sure if this is a font issue or a convert the current character to an ascii
character from (UTF8 or UTF16, etc.).

Previously we had this terminal font that display ascii character that were
normally not printable like ascii 10 and 13.

I'm posting this for another person.

JerryM
 
It looks like now that the Textbox control can't display the newline
characters (chrw(10) & charw(13)). We need to be able to display these
special ascii characters in the textbox with scrollbars turn. (at lease the
horizontal scrollbar).

Any ideas?

JerryM
 
Hi,

When I want to display something for non-text characters, I use a method
that replaces each with the specific sequence of characters needed. For
example, here is one sequence that I use:

"NUL ,SOH ,STX ,ETX ,EOT ,ENQ ,ACK ,BEL ,BS ,HT ,LF ,VT ,FF ,CR ,SO ,SI ,DLE
,DC1 ,DC2 ,DC3 ,DC4 ,NAK ,SYN ,ETB ,CAN ,EM ,SUB ,ESC ,FS ,GS ,RS ,US"

I split this into an array of strings and use the index in the array to
select the display character "set."

I actually add some open and close brackets (with leading and trailing
spaces), so that carriage return is displayed as [CR] .

For some time I played with creating my own mono-spaced font for these
purposes, but decided that it wasn't worth the effort.

Dick

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I agree with Dick that you could use some special notation to display the
non-print characters.


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