Using fonts with Symbian and Maemo Platform

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Hamishwillee - Add references and Qt?

This article would be much better if it had:

• Description/explanation
• It was extended to cover Qt, which provides cross-platform methods for file handling
• It linked to some of the more detailed stand alone articles on these topics in the wiki and in the api reference.

  hamishwillee 04:21, 2 May 2012 (EEST)

  hamishwillee 04:22, 2 May 2012 (EEST)

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Created: ebra (04 Dec 2007)

Last edited: lpvalente (24 Mar 2013)

Comparison

Comparing Symbian and Maemo Platforms

Symbian Platform

// Abstract font interface
const CFont* iFont;
 
// EAknLogicalFontPrimaryFont
// EAknLogicalFontSecondaryFont
// EAknLogicalFontTitleFont
 
iFont = AknLayoutUtils::FontFromId(EAknLogicalFontPrimaryFont);

// A graphics device to which a bitmap managed by the font and bitmap server can be drawn
CFbsScreenDevice* iFbsScrDev;
 
// Abstract font interface
CFont* iFont;
 
// Create a font spec in order to retrieve a valid font
// TFontSpec(const TDesC &aTypefaceName, TInt aHeight);
 
_LIT(KFontFamily, "S60 Sans");
TFontSpec fs(KFontFamily, 100);
 
iFbsScrDev->GetNearestFontInTwips((CFont*&)iFont, fs);

CWindowGc& gc = SystemGc();
 
gc.UseFont(iFont);
...
gc.DiscardFont();

Maemo Platform

GdkFont* font = NULL;
 
font = gdk_font_from_description(
    pango_font_description_from_string ("Monospace Regular 22"));