Hi,

i have a problem regarding DirectX9 Fonts, what i wanted to do is display
some text on the screen. So i created my font with this line of code:

V_RETURN( D3DXCreateFont( pd3dDevice, 30, 0, 55, 0, FALSE, DEFAULT_CHARSET,
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, ANTIALIASED_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH |
FF_DONTCARE,
TEXT("Helvetica 65 Medium"), &g_myfont9 ));

and a second font to test stuff was

V_RETURN( D3DXCreateFont( pd3dDevice, 30, 0, 200, 0, FALSE, DEFAULT_CHARSET,
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE,
TEXT("Arial"), &g_myfont9_big ));

this one. Now when i render some text with the first font (g_myfont9), i
have no space between the letters, its all clamped up, the second (which is
Arial...) works fine. When i use the Helvetica font in Word for example, it
works fine.

Is there a way to manually get some space between the characters, or do i
have to do it manually (by doing " " in between for example).

Thanks in advance.

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Please post the code you're using to draw the text and tell me if
you're compiling in ANSI or UNICODE.

I have no idea whether i am using ANSI or UNICODE, and no clue where to find
out about that.

Font creation:

V_RETURN( D3DXCreateFont( pd3dDevice, 30, 0, 100, 0, FALSE, ANSI_CHARSET,
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, ANTIALIASED_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH |
FF_DONTCARE,
TEXT("Helvetica 45 Thin"), &g_myfont9 ));

V_RETURN( D3DXCreateFont( pd3dDevice, 30, 0, 100, 0, FALSE,
DEFAULT_CHARSET,
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE,
TEXT("Arial"), &g_myfont9_big ));

Displaying and creating the text:

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"Justus Jonas" nowhere.com> spake the secret code
<#9I21Qv9IHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> thusly:

Look in your project settings and check your preprocessor definitions
-- you should be setting UNICODE or _UNICODE for wide character builds.

I'm guessing you're using wide character builds because this line
compiles:

That implies that you're building unicode because you're feeding a
wide-character pointer to DrawText and it isn't complaining when you
compile it.

it is indeed Unicode

g_myfont9->DrawText(NULL, L"Text Test\n Test 233", -1, &rct, 0, fontColor );

this is the line i just tested, works fine with Arial, doesnt work with
Helvetica 55 Roman

Another thing just happened, when i start the program in full screen mode,
its flickering, which it shouldnt. This is another problem, but what could i
do about that?

nevermind that flickering, i found out where that came from, still having
the problem with the font though. I could use Arial, but i had a designer
make that layout, and he specifically used Helvetica ;)

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<#BIihf09IHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> thusly:

I would say then that the problem appears to be something specific to
this font, so let's look closer at the font.