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Windows API: Get font size resolution
2003-04-29 -- Larry Sand
 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clarion Michael D. Brooks wrote: | Can anyone recomment the best call to use to determine the screen resolution | and font size use? | | I need to get this information for automatic window sizing. | Michael, GetDeviceCaps() for the screen resolution and something like: myhDC = GetDC(0) PrevMapMode = SetMapMode(myhDC, MM_TEXT) GetTextMetrics(myhDC, tm) PrevMapMode = SetMapMode(myhDC, PrevMapMode) ! tm is a text metric structure, ! tm.tmHeight is the size of the desktop windows font in pixels ReleaseDC(0,MyhDC) for the font size. Cheers, Larry Sand

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