Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that
a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front
of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so
that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day
on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to
begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place
I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a
FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those
with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new
Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help
with this question would be greatly appreciated. 7 1688
I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As
far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f =
new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable
so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote: Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help with this question would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I
would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers,
Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote: I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help with this question would be greatly appreciated.
RTF wasn't exactly intended for saving fonts. You have to go through a code
mess / hacks to get it to work. If I had to save some font data to disk I
would do it in an XML file.
Here's a piece of code for appsettings serializing:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace Example
{
public class AppSettings
{
private XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
public AppSettings()
{
string path = System.Windows. Forms.Applicati on.StartupPath +
"\\appsettings. xml";
if (File.Exists(pa th))
xd.Load(path);
else
xd.LoadXml("<Ap pSettings></AppSettings>");
}
public string GetSetting(stri ng settingPath)
{
try
{
string[] path = settingPath.Spl it(".".ToCharAr ray());
XmlElement current = xd.DocumentElem ent[path[0]];
for(int x = 1; x<path.Length; x++)
{
current = current[path[x]];
}
return current.InnerTe xt;
}
catch
{
return "";
}
}
public void SetSetting(stri ng settingPath, string val)
{
string[] path = settingPath.Spl it(".".ToCharAr ray());
XmlElement current;
if (xd.DocumentEle ment[path[0]] != null)
{
current = xd.DocumentElem ent[path[0]];
}
else
{
current = xd.CreateElemen t(path[0]);
xd.DocumentElem ent.AppendChild (current);
}
for(int x = 1; x<path.Length; x++)
{
if (current[path[x]] != null)
{
current = current[path[x]];
}
else
{
current.AppendC hild(xd.CreateE lement(path[x]));
current = current[path[x]];
}
}
current.InnerTe xt = val;
return;
}
public void Save()
{
xd.Save(System. Windows.Forms.A pplication.Star tupPath +
"\\appsettings. xml");
}
}
}
"Derrick" wrote: Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers, Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote:
I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help with this question would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Derrick,
There are at least two ways of doing this:
1. Store values for each argument used in the font constructor and it's type
in a config file. Retrieve them and cast them as require while calling the
constructor
2. Serialize the font object store it in a file. Deserialize the data when
required.
Let me know if you need more info.
HTH,
Rakesh Rajan
"Derrick" wrote: Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers, Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote:
I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help with this question would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to the quick and thorough information you all gave I was able to do
what I wanted. I still have a lot of learning to do. I couldn't have done
it without your help. Thanks a ton!
Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote: RTF wasn't exactly intended for saving fonts. You have to go through a code mess / hacks to get it to work. If I had to save some font data to disk I would do it in an XML file.
Here's a piece of code for appsettings serializing:
using System; using System.IO; using System.Xml;
namespace Example { public class AppSettings { private XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
public AppSettings() { string path = System.Windows. Forms.Applicati on.StartupPath + "\\appsettings. xml"; if (File.Exists(pa th)) xd.Load(path); else xd.LoadXml("<Ap pSettings></AppSettings>"); }
public string GetSetting(stri ng settingPath) { try { string[] path = settingPath.Spl it(".".ToCharAr ray()); XmlElement current = xd.DocumentElem ent[path[0]]; for(int x = 1; x<path.Length; x++) { current = current[path[x]]; } return current.InnerTe xt; } catch { return ""; } } public void SetSetting(stri ng settingPath, string val) { string[] path = settingPath.Spl it(".".ToCharAr ray()); XmlElement current; if (xd.DocumentEle ment[path[0]] != null) { current = xd.DocumentElem ent[path[0]]; } else { current = xd.CreateElemen t(path[0]); xd.DocumentElem ent.AppendChild (current); } for(int x = 1; x<path.Length; x++) { if (current[path[x]] != null) { current = current[path[x]]; } else { current.AppendC hild(xd.CreateE lement(path[x])); current = current[path[x]]; } } current.InnerTe xt = val; return; } public void Save() { xd.Save(System. Windows.Forms.A pplication.Star tupPath + "\\appsettings. xml"); } } }
"Derrick" wrote:
Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers, Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote:
I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that > a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front > of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so > that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day > on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to > begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place > I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a > FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those > with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new > Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help > with this question would be greatly appreciated. > >
Serializing sounds like a good way to go. Especially since the FontStyle has
no constructor. I'll need to spend some time researching how to do it this
way. The way I've been able to do so far is quite hacky. Thank you for the
great tip.
Derrick
"Rakesh Rajan" wrote: Hi Derrick,
There are at least two ways of doing this: 1. Store values for each argument used in the font constructor and it's type in a config file. Retrieve them and cast them as require while calling the constructor 2. Serialize the font object store it in a file. Deserialize the data when required.
Let me know if you need more info.
HTH, Rakesh Rajan
"Derrick" wrote:
Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers, Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote:
I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable so you have to create a new object.
"Derrick" wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that > a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front > of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so > that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day > on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to > begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place > I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a > FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those > with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new > Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help > with this question would be greatly appreciated. > >
Hi Derrick,
Glad to know that :)
Just in case you need the MSDN link to serialization concepts http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ialization.asp
Regards,
Rakesh Rajan
"Derrick" wrote: Serializing sounds like a good way to go. Especially since the FontStyle has no constructor. I'll need to spend some time researching how to do it this way. The way I've been able to do so far is quite hacky. Thank you for the great tip.
Derrick
"Rakesh Rajan" wrote:
Hi Derrick,
There are at least two ways of doing this: 1. Store values for each argument used in the font constructor and it's type in a config file. Retrieve them and cast them as require while calling the constructor 2. Serialize the font object store it in a file. Deserialize the data when required.
Let me know if you need more info.
HTH, Rakesh Rajan
"Derrick" wrote:
Thank you Alex. Can you suggest a better way of saving the font data? I would really like to do this the best and most efficient way possible.
Cheers, Derrick
"Alex Korchemniy" wrote:
> I dont quite understand why you are using .RTF to store the information. As > far as the FontStyle you can use OR because it supports bitmask. Ie. Font f = > new Font("Arial", 12F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Itali c); Font is immutable > so you have to create a new object. > > "Derrick" wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to persist and retrieve the font characteristics that > > a user chooses to have displayed in a personalized label field on the front > > of their application? I wanted to be able to give the user this ability so > > that they could place a company logo, motto, or simply a message of the day > > on the form, and have it redisplay from then on at start up just as it was to > > begin with. I was trying to use an .rtf file to store the data. The place > > I'm running into trouble is with the FontStyle. I can't reduplicate a > > FontStyle of say, Bold/Italic/Underline. I can only reduplicate one of those > > with a FontStyle fontstyle = FontStyle.Bold statement and then create a new > > Font with a new Font(fontfamily , fontsize, fontstyle) statement. Any help > > with this question would be greatly appreciated. > > > > This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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