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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : CMM2: Font height?
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| mkopack73 Senior Member  Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Is there any way to query the height of a given font (assuming that it might not be one of the built in ones). I know the built in ones are listed in a table in the manual, but I'm looking to see if there's a way to get the size regardless if it's the built in or if it's been replaced... (So I can do some dynamic positioning of text on the screen based on the screen res and the font/scaling chosen). Thoughts? |
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| mkopack73 Senior Member Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Also, how does one detect the enter key when using INKEY$ or KEYDOWN() ??? |
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KeepIS Guru  Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1679 |
All in the Manual: MM.INFO(FONTHEIGHT) The Enter key is a standard ASCII value of 13 Dec. It's all too hard. Mike. |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
For KEYDOWN() I got a value of 10, using this program to check one or two keys: do do loop until keydown(0) > 0 if keydown(0) > 1 then print keydown(2);" and "; print keydown(1) loop |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1679 |
For some reason the Keydown function is only returning the Linefeed character. dim KeyStr as string cls do KeyStr=inkey$ If KeyStr <> "" then print KeyStr;:print asc(KeyStr) endif loop until asc(KeyStr)=27 'esc key It's all too hard. Mike. |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6089 |
The enter key is seen as <CR><LF> pair If you are using a terminal program instead of the uSB keyboard, it will depend on the setting of your terminal program. The differences between Windows, Linux and Mac always make life difficult which is why your program should check for either CR, LF or both DO k$ = INKEY$ IF LEN(k$) <> 0 THEN PRINT HEX$(ASC(k$),2);" ";k$ LOOP Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6089 |
I expect that it is because the enter key gets mapped to CR LF with the LF last in the list so it is the one 'seen' Using ctrl-M does give you chr$(13) Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6089 |
The first group of data in a font file gives you the sizes. the order of info is character count, character start, character height, character width, This font DefineFont #8 01203C30 00000000 00000000 00002000 F8010000 00000000 0080FF3F FFE30000 010000C0 00E07FC9 01900300 060000F0 00F80080 00000F00 1E0000FC 007E0000 20001E00 3C00003E 000F7900 FF0B3C00 7800800F C007FF03 FF0B7800 7800C087 C083FF3F 3F3FF800 F800E0C3 E063FFFF FF7FF800 F004E0E7 E0FFFFFF FFCB710F E30FE0FF E0FF1FC0 0F84E70F E30BE0F1 E0C0CF9F 67D1E30B 430BE018 608E07C0 C3FFC30A C100E003 E08983CF 83FFC1F8 41FAE09F E0CFC3FF 83CFB1FB 90FBC0FF C0FFC30F 071F10FF 90FFC0BF C09F071E 071C36FE 7200C0CF C0C7013D 817F3300 3F00C0E7 80FBD0FF FDFF77FC 475C80FF 80DF3FF0 0070735C 6758000F 007F43F8 7AF87348 3BF1007F 00FEF5FA 7FFEF900 3DF800FE 00FC3FBE 03FE0DFF C6FF00F8 00F84FFF 6F3FF1A7 F84700F0 00E0FF7F FF3FDE1F FF0700C0 0080FF3F FF8FFED3 FEFD0000 00003F40 3E60FAFF BACF0000 00003C74 1CAEFEFF F6DF0000 00003C3F 9C3FF8FF FEFF0000 0000FC4F 00000000 End DefineFont has 01203C30 which can be expanded using cc = val("&h"+mid$(txt$,1,2)) ' character count cs = val("&h"+mid$(txt$,3,2)) ' character start ch = val("&h"+mid$(txt$,5,2)) ' character height cw = val("&h"+mid$(txt$,7,2)) ' character width to 1 character, Chr$(32), 60 pixels high and 48 pixels wide Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
USB keyboard or terminal program? There's an "OPTION CRLF mode" that's suppose to affect what the USB keyboard sends. I don't know if it changes keydown, maybe only inkey$ Edited 2020-08-01 12:17 by capsikin |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6089 |
setting OPTION CRLF LF changes inkey$ to LF only both other options gives the CR LF pair. I don't know if that is by design or a bug. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| mkopack73 Senior Member Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Ok, got the keyboard scanning properly... And thanks, I missed the MM.INFO(FONTHEIGHT).... Wish there was an MM.INFO(FONTNUMBER) and MM.INFO(FONTSCALE) to get back which font # is currently being used at what scale... Basically I'm trying to write an include for doing high scores... so I have a function in there for reading the top 10 scores from a sequential file, one for displaying the top 10, a function that determines if a given score is in the top 10, and another for the user to put in their name if it's a top 10 and save the new list to disk. I am trying to make this universal regardless of the resolution of the screen. I am having parameters to allow the caller to tell it which font and scale to use for displaying the HS screens. But what I'm missing is a way to reset the font back to what it was after it's done doing it's job. There doesn't seem to be a way to ask what font # is currently in use. I guess I could just leave it up to the parent program to set the font info before calling the high score functions... |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1679 |
I guess you could interrogate Font width and Height, but Font 1,2 scaling with Font 3 would throw that off, at least they would be the same size, don't know about the rest though, and custom fonts could have the same issue. It's all too hard. Mike. |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1679 |
There is a Mode command to return the current Video mode MM.INFO(MODE) Mike. It's all too hard. Mike. |
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