Using System and FixedSys fonts

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Hello,

How can I use the 'System' or 'FixedSys' font in my .NET
application using controls (TextBox, Button and ListView)?

Thanks,
 
Thanks for the reply,

I understand that .Net does not support non-true type
fonts (ie Screen Fonts). I should of made that clear in my
question, but what I did to know if there are any sample
code out there which uses GDI rather than GDI+ to draw
text using Screen Fonts. The problem I've got is I'm doing
a conversion into C#, the existing code uses FixedSys and
System in almost every screen, I've already tried using
Courier New and Lucia Console and they do not give a good
match.

Thanks,
 
Hi,

I understand that .Net does not support non-true type
fonts (ie Screen Fonts). I should of made that clear in my
question, but what I did to know if there are any sample
code out there which uses GDI rather than GDI+ to draw
text using Screen Fonts. The problem I've got is I'm doing
a conversion into C#, the existing code uses FixedSys and
System in almost every screen, I've already tried using
Courier New and Lucia Console and they do not give a good
match.
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Your original question indicated that you wanted to have some
of the standard controls use this font. That's not going to
happen - those controls use System.Drawing to do their drawing,
and are therefore limited to TT fonts.

You could interop with GDI, provided you'll be the one calling
TextOut() or ExtTextOut(). This means that you'll have to handle
all the drawing for every control which you intend to use these
fonts.

You'd really be better off using a replacement TT font, unless
you're up for that much effort. But if you want to do it yourself,
you can probably find some code examples on gotdotnet.com top show
how to draw the controls yourself, and probably how to interop too.

Thanks,
- John
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