Re: Examining font properties under Windows

Hrvoje> Here's a simple question: how do I find whether a face is Hrvoje> bold? How about italic? Hrvoje> Under X11, I can examine (font-instance-properties Hrvoje> (face-font-instance face)). Then, if the property Hrvoje> `WEIGHT_NAME' equals "Bold", the face is probably bold. Hrvoje> If 'SLANT equals "i" or "o", the face is for my purposes Hrvoje> italic. Hrvoje> I have a strange feeling that this doesn't work on non-X11 Hrvoje> devices. It might even failed under X11-based devices Hrvoje> that provide their own font model (Qt?), under the Hrvoje> condition that XEmacs actually uses it. So my question Hrvoje> is: what does `font-instance-properties' return under Hrvoje> Windows? If the answer is "nothing" or "nothing useful", Hrvoje> is there another way to detect boldness etc.? Hi Hrvoje, I get this in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) \"Reasonable Discussion\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Sun Sep 14 2003 on D5DC120J" (face-font-instance 'gnus-header-subject-face) #<font-instance "Courier New:Bold:10::Western" on #<mswindows-device 0x5ea> 0xde0a0db3 0x1b8f> (font-instance-properties (face-font-instance 'gnus-header-subject-face)) nil -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/