Article: Q57502
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00 7.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S891211-4 docerr | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 8-JAN-1991
Page 524 of the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Language Reference" for
Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) Versions 7.00
and 7.10 shows an incorrect example of how to load a font by its order
in the font file. This documentation incorrectly states the following:
Note that to load fonts according to their order in the font
file, l% would take the form:
l% = LoadFont%("n1,n3,n6")
The code above should read as follows (where l% means L%, not to be
confused with 1%):
l% = LoadFont%("n1/n3/n6")
When loading multiple fonts, each font given in the fontspec$ argument
of LoadFont%(fontspec$) should be separated by forward slashes (the
"/" character), not by commas.
If the code in this documentation error is used, only the first font
is loaded (l% contains the number "1", indicating that only one font
is loaded).
Code Example
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The following code example demonstrates the documentation problem. To
use this code example, you must start QBX.EXE with /L FONTBEFR.QLB to
access the font routines.
REM $INCLUDE: 'fontb.bi'
'* Load a the Times Roman font.
SCREEN 9
PRINT "Registering Times Roman font."
FontNum% = RegisterFonts("D:\BC7\FONTS\TMSRB.FON")
PRINT "Number of fonts in the file: "; FontNum%
PRINT "Loading fonts 4,5,6 from the Times Roman file."
var1% = LoadFont%("N4,N5,N6")
PRINT "Number of fonts successfully loaded"; var1%
PRINT "value of FontErr", FontErr
a$ = "Hello world"
var1% = OutGText%(100, 100, a$)
END