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Hooligan

Hi all,

Does anyone have any ideas on how to display a text message using a unicode font?
What I am trying to do is install a japanese font (Simsun.ttf), and display a success message, in japanese, using the Simsun font, when accomplished.

Thanks in advance,
Hooligan

Serge · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

a bit of possible lateral thinking here

how about displaying the message in a browser box using html ... would that do the job?

serge

Hooligan · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:46 am Post subject:

That might just do it... I'll see what I can do.

Thanks,
Hooligan

jules · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:50 am Post subject:

Unfortunately even Delphi doesn't support Unicode.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

Actually there are units and classes in Delphi which allow you to use Unicode characters for display. Theres many third party controls which can display unicode as well; tntware makes a nice set of freeware unicode controls for Delphi but only work under 2000/2003/NT/XP/Vista, earlier versions of Windows did not support unicode.

vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject:

Hooligan,
Can you send me the font you are trying to use. It should be possible to do this with GadgetX since it is not local specific and has the abilities to call Unicode functions and ActiveX controls.

Hooligan · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

Hi Dragonsphere,

I certainly can, but it is a 10MB truetype font set... It is included in M$ Office installations or can be downloaded as part of a M$ support package here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc02e2e3-14bb-46c1-afee-3732d6249647&DisplayLang=en

It is also available with Windows XP Embedded, which is where I will use it from...

I will include a text file that uses this font. Open it in notepad and change the font to SimSun.

If you could make it work with GadgetX, that would give me the justification to have my company purchase it... Twisted Evil

Thanks,
Hooligan

vdsalchemist · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:51 am Post subject:

Hooligan,
I have this working with GadgetX however I had to make a few small changes to the way GadgetX handled these string types. I was not happy with the old way. I will be packaging the new build either tonight or tomorrow. I will make sure to include an example for you to follow.