setFont

setFont (string Name, integer Height, integer Charset, integer Bold, integer Italic, integer Underline

[, integer Orient ] )

Use this function to assign the font for the drawText.function. Equivalent to changing the font settings in the Edit menu.

Parameters

Name

A string containing the typeface name of the font.

Height

An integer specifying the desired height of the font in logical units. The font height can be specified in the following ways:

Greater than 0, in which case the height is transformed into pixels and matched against the cell height of the available fonts.

Equal to 0, in which case a reasonable default size is used.

Less than 0, in which case the height is transformed into pixels and the absolute value is matched against the character height of the available fonts.

Charset

An integer specifying the font's character set.

Bold

A boolean integer specifying weather the font is bold. Must be TRUE or FALSE.

Italic

A boolean integer specifying weather the font is italic. Must be TRUE or FALSE.

Underline

A boolean integer specifying weather the font is underlined. Must be TRUE or FALSE.

Orient

An integer specifying the angle between the baseline of a character and the horizontal. The angle is measured clockwise in degrees.

Error flags

ERR_OK

The flag set if successful.

ERR_FAILED

The flag set if failed.

Example

The following statements sets a font and draws a text on a sample image:

setCurDir("samples")

loadIm (1,"sample14.iwd")

setFont ("Arial", 20, 0, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, -30)

drawText (1, "Text message", 100, 100, 255, 0, 0)