Weight from FontDialog

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Hi there,

how to get the weight from System.Drawing.FontDialog?
I can choose it in dialog window, but its not possible to read the value?

Posted 4-Jul-13 0:45am

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Naz_Firdouse · Answer 1 · 2013-07-04T01:06:00

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if it is related to WPF,check this
fontdialog[^]

Posted 4-Jul-13 1:06am

Naz_Firdouse

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Member 9246155 4-Jul-13 7:11am

No, i'm using Windows Forms.
WPF is not possible.

Member 9246155 4-Jul-13 7:16am

I need a value like im MFC: CFontDialog.GetWeight()

Naz_Firdouse 4-Jul-13 7:22am

Wight in the sense what want to know whether it is bold or italic like this?

Member 9246155 4-Jul-13 7:45am

Yes, i think its called 'font style'.
But it's not enough to know if bold or italic is true/false.
Some fonts can have more specific wight values, look here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-weight
MFC CFontDialog.GetWeight() returns a int value like 100, 200,...

Naz_Firdouse 4-Jul-13 7:51am

I agree...
but using FontDialog, you can set only four values like Regular,Oblique,Bold,Bold Oblique...
In that case, how you can set the weight to lighter or bolder?

Member 9246155 4-Jul-13 7:56am

No, you can set more than 4 values.
f.e. the font Albertus, antique Olive, Arial, ...

Naz_Firdouse 4-Jul-13 8:28am

May be...I can see only those four in my App..

Naz_Firdouse · Answer 2 · 2013-07-04T02:29:00

C#

private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           FontDialog fontDialog1 = new FontDialog();
           // Show the dialog.
           DialogResult result = fontDialog1.ShowDialog();
           // See if OK was pressed.
           if (result == DialogResult.OK)
           {
               // Get Font.
               Font font = fontDialog1.Font;
               // Set TextBox properties.
               this.textBox1.Text = string.Format("Font is: {0} and style is: {1}", font.Name,font.Style);
               this.textBox1.Font = font;
           }
       }

Here font.Style shows the style you selected from FontDialog