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Fonts
You can print to the screen with PRINT "some text" but it will produce very dull displays. It is much better to use gPrint, which enables you to set such things as the font, size, style and so on. It's easy to use, but fiddly and involves a lot more typing. However, the results are worth it.
It is hard to visualise what a particular font looks like and how big it will appear on the screen. Is 10 point Arial readable or would you be better with 13 point bold and double height? Would Times Bold look better?
This simple little program shows how to print text in different fonts, sizes and styles. I use it to find a nice type style for headings, a readable size for a help screen and so on. The Const.oph file contains lots of font definitions and using Include you can use them in your program.
A typical example is gFont KFontArialBold13&. Try changing the 13 to 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and so on. Make a mental note of what works and what looks nice. Also try KFontArialNormal13& and other variations.
gStyle sets the style - normal, bold, underlined, inverse, double height, mono spaced, italic (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32). You can add the values to get bold italic (1+32).
INCLUDE "Const.oph" PROC Fonts: defaultwin 1 gAT 120,50 gSTYLE 1 gFONT KFontArialBold13& gPRINT "Arial 13" gAT 120,80 gSTYLE 4+32 Rem Inverse+italic gFONT KFontArialNormal15& gPRINT "Arial 15" gAT 120,120 gSTYLE 1+8 Rem Bold+double height gFONT KFontTimesNormal11& gPRINT "Times New Roman 11" GET ENDP
