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Chapter 3 - Help Manager / Help Manager Reference

Help Manager Routines / Getting and Setting the Font Name and Size

HMGetFont
To get information about the font that is currently used to display text in help balloons, use the HMGetFont function.
FUNCTION HMGetFont (VAR font: Integer): OSErr;
font
The global font number used to display text in help balloons.

DESCRIPTION
The HMGetFont function returns in its font parameter the global font number used to display text in help balloons. HMGetFont returns this information only for Pascal strings stored in the help resources themselves and for strings from 'STR#' and 'STR ' resources; it does not return information about text in 'PICT' or styled text resources, or in handles to either of these resources.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION
The trap macro and routine selector for the HMGetFont function are
Trap macro Selector
_Pack14 $020A

RESULT CODES
noErr 0 No error
memFullErr -108 Not enough room in heap zone

SEE ALSO
The chapter "TextEdit" in Inside Macintosh: Text describes global font numbers.

Trap macro	Selector
_Pack14	$020A

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HMGetFont

DESCRIPTION

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

RESULT CODES noErr0No error memFullErr-108Not enough room in heap zone

SEE ALSO

RESULT CODES
noErr 0 No error
memFullErr -108 Not enough room in heap zone