Font in widget question

[Christian Blouin]

Hi,

 

            I am using symbol fonts  for an application and am writing a
symbol picker for this purpose. There are ~10 fonts that the symbols can
come from but not all characters in each font is taken. So what I did is to
enumerate all character from ASCII 27 to 255 as one item in a ComboBox.
There are other controls to choose which font to use and I was very happy to
find out that simply changing the font of the character ComboBox is working
out great. Because I use a font of size 50 (to see the symbol in detail),
the ComboBox may not be the best option, but it'll do for now.

 

            What I am wondering about is whether there is a way for me to
detect whether a character is in a given font is present before adding it to
the ComboBox. I'd like to avoid adding these "rectangles" in the control.
Making a list of actual character for all fonts isn't really an option that
I want to consider.

 

Thanks,

 

Christian

http://vibrio.cs.dal.ca/SandWiki/ 

 

 

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