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Programming => Operating Systems => Windows CE => Topic started by: CodeMonkey on June 02, 2010, 08:11:13 am

Title: Fixed width font on Windows Mobile 6.1
Post by: CodeMonkey on June 02, 2010, 08:11:13 am

Can you help me get a fixed width font in a memo field on Windows Mobile 6.1

What font should I use for this ?  Do I need to use any particular sizes or properties (bold etc)

I have tried COURIER, COURIER NEW and TERMINAL using a variety of sizes but no luck so far.

I am developing on Lazarus on Windows XP, compiling for WinCE and running the EXE on Windows Mobile.

Thanks everyone

Environment
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Lazarus
   lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32.exe
   Lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-cross-arm-wince-win32.exe
   
HTC Touch HD - Windows Mobile 6.1

Title: Re: Fixed width font on Windows Mobile 6.1
Post by: felipemdc on June 03, 2010, 03:01:10 am

According to MSDN Docs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb159674.aspx

It should be Courier. But here it isn't fixed-size either ... strange.

Title: Re: Fixed width font on Windows Mobile 6.1
Post by: vgoudreault on September 23, 2010, 05:40:27 am

Looks like MS decides to override your selection based on default properties (font support on WinCE is very poor).

Here is what you could do:
on your memo field Properties tab, expand the "Font" property and find the Pitch sub-property. Set it to 'fpFixed'.
That works on my side (the font turns into Courrier on the WinCE machine, no matter what is specified as Font.Name).