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Compiling with font resource

I'm on windows 8.1, visual studio 2017.

I'm using this pricedown font in a directx project I'm working on.

I load it with AddFontResourceEx and create a font for it with D3DXCreateFont.

When I hit "Local Windows Debugger" everything is fine, font renders. Be it in release or in debug mode. Problem arises when I go through any executable, it never renders said font, be it release or debug.

So I went reading, I read the articles on msdn, this one and others whenever needed.

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, my Resource View looks like this:

Resource View

, and IDR_FONT1 looks like this:

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The file is automatically loaded into the solution explorer (I didn't add it, VS did from the Resource.rc file), as you can see here:

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With these proprieties:

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I add it like so:

AddFontResourceEx("pricedown.ttf", FR_PRIVATE, 0);
this->createFont("Pricedown", 60, true, false);

Where createfont is my function to add the font (stripped down, it has arrays):

bool    D3D9Render::createFont(char *name, int size, bool bold, bool italic)
{
    D3DXCreateFont(m_pD3dDev, size, 0, (bold) ? FW_BOLD : FW_NORMAL, 0, (italic) ? 1 : 0, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, ANTIALIASED_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH, name, &m_pFont);
    return true;
}

I'm compiling it as x64 release.

As I've said, it works and renders the font when I press "Local Windows Debugger" (in any mode including x64 release), but when I go to project/x64/Release, it just won't render the font. Even the executable size is adequate.

GetLastError on the AddFontResource is 2 (ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • (Read the answer until the end, or you'll waste a lot of time.)

    I got it. I had read over this blog post.

    Here is an example on how to use AddFontMemResourceEx on a font file embedded in the resource.

    HINSTANCE hResInstance = AfxGetResourceHandle( ); //Read the edit

HRSRC res = FindResource(
    hResInstance, 
    MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MYFONT),
    L"BINARY"  //Read The Edit
); 
if (res) 
{
    HGLOBAL mem = LoadResource(hResInstance, res);
    void *data = LockResource(mem);
    size_t len = SizeofResource(hResInstance, res);

    DWORD nFonts;
    m_fonthandle = AddFontMemResourceEx(
        data,       // font resource
        len,       // number of bytes in font resource 
        NULL,          // Reserved. Must be 0.
        &nFonts      // number of fonts installed
        );

    if(m_fonthandle==0)
    {
        MessageBox(L"Font add fails", L"Error");
    }
}

    Though you need afxwin.h, and from here:

    afxwin.h is MFC and MFC is not included in the free version of VC++ (Express Edition)

    EDIT:

    You do not need to use AfxGetResourceHandle (why you would need afxwin.h), you can simply do: 

    HINSTANCE hResInstance = (HINSTANCE)GetModuleHandle(NULL);

    And in FindResource, the 3rd parameter should be RT_FONT, and so you'd get:

    HRSRC res = FindResource(hResInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_FONT1), RT_FONT);