Am 17.10.2017 07:19 schrieb "R0b0t1 via Lazarus" < [email protected]>: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:56 PM, R0b0t1 via Lazarus > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Is it not possible to bundle supported resources in the LCL? That seems > >> like the typical solution for Windows. On other OSes this is less proper, > >> but I have still seen it done. > > > > > > Excuse me? > > How could LCL bundle the fonts used by your OS? > > > > It is not necessary to rely on only the system font collection, even > when using WinAPI forms: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.text.privatefontcollection.aspx . > Something similar is done in C++. > > Admittedly there does seem to be some confusion about whether you can > make certain UI objects (non-GDI+, specifically) take on face of these > fonts, but I suspect you can, as it seems that there is a common > underlying graphics system that the old APIs use. Even if not it would > be possible to distribute an open font with Lazarus/the LCL and > install it when Lazarus/the LCL is installed.
If anything that should be part of the application's setup, not of the application itself nor of the LCL. Regards Sven
-- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
