[dba-VB] use a font in a class

John --

Did you try it like that?:

//-----------------------------------------
using System.Drawing;
...
Font font = new Font("Arial", 3.1f);
System.Console.WriteLine("{0}", font);  
// the above line will output:
//[Font: Name=Arial, Size=3.1, Units=3, GdiCharSet=1, GdiVerticalFont=False]


//-----------------------------------------

with System.Windows.Forms and System.Drawing references set?

It works here in console app or class lib.
I have used something like that many times...

Thank you.

--
Shamil
 
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 5 ??????? 2010 ?. 4:25
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] use a font in a class

 > But you can pass form's Font instance to your class as a parameter, dont'
you?...

Yes, that is what I am having to do.

 > Or you can create a Font instance in your class, don't you?

No, that is the original problem email.  The code to do that fails in a
class.  Unless you have another way to do it that the code I sent.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 12/4/2010 6:46 PM, Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
> But you can pass form's Font instance to your class as a parameter, dont'
> you?...
>
> Or you can create a Font instance in your class, don't you?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 5 ??????? 2010 ?. 2:28
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] use a font in a class
>
> Yes, in a form that works because "this" has a font.  In a class, 
> "this" is the class (not a form) which doesn't have a font.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 12/4/2010 5:55 PM, Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
>> John  --
>>
>> You can use:
>>
>>    Font font = new Font(this.Font, FontStyle.Bold);
>>
>> Ignore my prev. posting in this thread.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Shamil
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>> Sent: 5 ??????? 2010 ?. 1:27
>> To: VBA
>> Subject: [dba-VB] use a font in a class
>>
>> I am defining a system for displaying a status on a form.  We have a 
>> listview object, in which we create three columns, then push stuff 
>> into the list using the following coed:
>>
>> private void UpdateStage1Status(StatusEventArgs stEvArgs) {
>>         Font bold = new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold);     //to make the
font
>> bold
>>         ListViewItem item;
>>         item = lstvStatus.Items.Add("",stEvArgs.pImageIndex);       //The
>> image to display for the row
>>         //item.BackColor = stEvArgs.pColor;
>>         item.UseItemStyleForSubItems = false;       //need to set this to
>> allow changing font color
>>         item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pDte.ToString());        //date
>>         item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pObjectPath);            //object path
>>         item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pStatus, Color.Black, Color.White, 
>> bold); //status text
>>            }
>>
>> Now I want to wrap the list and this code in a class so that I do not 
>> have to have all this (and
>> other) stuff in the form.
>>
>> The problem is that the line
>>
>>        Font bold = new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold);     //to make the font
> bold
>>
>> won't compile in a class.  It complains that
>>
>> Font bold = new Font(Font
>>
>> That last class is bad (can't be inherited).  AFAICT (just a guess) 
>> that Font reference only works in a form.
>>
>> Is there any way other than passing the font in to this method to us 
>> the code as written (in a class)?
>>
>> --
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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