Windows forms fontdialog

Saturday, December 18, PM. If you attempt to use a font that is not supported, or the font is not installed on the machine that is running the application, the Microsoft Sans Serif font will be substituted. David Cravey. Wednesday, December 22, PM. What Operating System are you using, and what Font are you selecting to get the exception? Nueva STD, gives the exception for me. I don't have Nueva STD to try, any other fonts have issues?

Do any OpenType fonts work? Sunday, December 19, AM. Can you give me an example of a few true types, and open types that you have? What is operating system are you using? The video did help me understand. I am not sure why most of the fonts worked just great.

Sunday, December 19, PM. Any other ideas to get the above details? Thanks for your understanding. Monday, December 20, AM. NET - Hands On!

Previous Page Print Page. Save Close. AllowSimulations Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box allows graphics device interface GDI font simulations. AllowVectorFonts Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box allows vector font selections. AllowVerticalFonts Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box displays both vertical and horizontal fonts, or only horizontal fonts. FixedPitchOnly Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box allows only the selection of fixed-pitch fonts.

FontMustExist Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box specifies an error condition if the user attempts to select a font or style that does not exist. The ShowEffects property represents whether the dialog box contains controls that allow the user to specify strikethrough, underline, and text color options.

The following code snippet sets these properties to true. The following code snippet sets these properties to 40 and 22 respectively. The following code snippet gets these properties and sets font and color of a TextBox and a Label controls. Font; label1. Font; textBox1. Color; label1. In this article, we discussed how to use a Windows Font Dialog and set its properties in a Windows Forms application.

View All. Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object.

Releases all resources used by the Component. Releases the unmanaged resources used by the Component and optionally releases the managed resources. Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. Returns an object that represents a service provided by the Component or by its Container. Gets the Type of the current instance. Specifies the common dialog box hook procedure that is overridden to add specific functionality to a common dialog box.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. Raises the Apply event. Raises the HelpRequest event. Defines the owner window procedure that is overridden to add specific functionality to a common dialog box. Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose method.

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