How to set font style in a CGContextRef??

Subject: How to set font style in a CGContextRef??

From: "David M. Cotter" <email@hidden>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:22:47 -0700

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what i'm doing now is calling setport on the underlying quickdraw port,

doing the "olden days" type font setup

then DrawThemeTextBox with kThemeCurrentPortFont

now i want to do this on a background thread maybe, so need to remove all non-thread safe code

that meas no quickdraw at all.

or say i'm ONLY passing around a contextRef, i don't HAVE a port (maybe it's a vector context right?)

wow i've been researching for a long time on this and found nothing that seemed to do what i want to do simply.

olden days:

TextFont(foo);

TextSize(bar);

TextStyle(baz);

DrawText(yadda yadda)

modern days:

option 1:

CGContextSelectFont(myContext, foo, bar, kCGEncodingFontSpecific);

??? But where is the call for style ??

option 2:

ATSFontRef atsFontRef = ATSFontFindFromName(CFSTR(foo), kATSOptionFlagsDefault);

???? again, how do i set the STYLE????

CGFontRef fontRef = CGFontCreateWithPlatformFont(&atsFontRef);

CGContextSetFont(myContext, fontRef);

like, from the font panel callbacks, i get this info:

kEventParamATSUFontID = 'auid', /* typeATSUFontID*/

kEventParamATSUFontSize = 'ausz', /* typeATSUSize*/

kEventParamFMFontFamily = 'fmfm', /* typeFMFontFamily*/

kEventParamFMFontStyle = 'fmst', /* typeFMFontStyle*/

kEventParamFMFontSize = 'fmsz', /* typeFMFontSize*/

kEventParamFontColor = 'fclr', /* typeFontColor*/

so how do i translate that into a font i can use in my contextRef???? WITH THE STYLE.

thanks and stuff :)

-dave

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