Re: Default font swipl-win.exe

On 01/03/2014 10:55 AM, Marco Verpelli wrote:
> It would be nice to add a command to change the current font from a
> prolog program. I know that is possible with XPCE but the "simple"
> Windows console is all what I need (for now!)

You can change the font through the UI.  If that is not enough, feel
free to send a patch.  The current set of predicates for the console
is described in http://swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=plwin

I consider the old Windows swipl-win.exe a dead end, although the time
line to replace it is not fixed.

	Cheers --- Jan

>
> Marco
>
> In data 03 gennaio 2014 alle ore 10:40:13, Jan Wielemaker
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>> On 01/02/2014 07:55 PM, Marco Verpelli wrote:
>>> Use the source! I forgot this advice.
>>
>> Yes.  Only, there are two swipl-win[.exe] at the moment: the old
>> one written by me for Windows and the new one written by Carlo
>> using Qt.  The old one is still the one on Windows.  The new one is
>> currently only the default for MacOS.  The source of the old one is
>> in
>>
>> src/win32/console/console.c.  There we read the default as:
>>
>> b->hfont = GetStockObject(ANSI_FIXED_FONT);
>>
>> If not default, the properties are read from the registry and a
>> font is created using CreateFontIndirect().
>>
>> Possibly the default is not a great idea for Unicode fonts.  If
>> anyone knows a better way, please send a patch.
>>
>> Cheers --- Jan
>>
>>>
>>> Marco
>>>
>>> In data 02 gennaio 2014 alle ore 19:24:14, Carlo Capelli
>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014/1/2 Marco Verpelli <[email protected]>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> can you tell me what is the default font for swipl-win.exe?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in Preferences.cpp there is the initialization line
>>>>
>>>> console_font = value("console_font", QFont("courier",
>>>> 12)).value<QFont>();
>>>>
>>>> If I open the Settings\Font... dialog in Ubuntu, I can select
>>>> the matching entry: Courier 10 Pitch
>>>>
>>>> HTH Carlo
>>>>
>>>>> Trying to display unicode characters I have changed the font
>>>>> and now I am unable to reset to default.
>>>>>
>>>>> TY
>>>>>
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