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Chapter 3 - QuickDraw Text / QuickDraw Text Reference

Routines / Setting Text Characteristics

TextFace

The TextFace procedure sets the style of the font in which the text is to be drawn in the current graphics port.

PROCEDURE TextFace (face: Style);

face

The style for text to be drawn in the current graphics port.

DESCRIPTION

The TextFace procedure sets the value for the style of the font in the text face (txFace) field of the current graphics port. The Style data type allows you to specify a set of one or more of the following predefined constants: bold, italic, underline, outline, shadow, condense, and extend. In Pascal, you specify the constants within square brackets. For example:

TextFace([bold]);          {bold}
TextFace([bold,italic]);   {bold and italic}

The style is set to the empty set ([]) by default, which specifies plain. For more information, see "Modifying the Text Style" on page 3-21.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

In assembly language, the style set is stored as a word whose low-order byte contains bits representing the style. The bit numbers are specified by the following global constants.

Constant	Bit	Meaning
bold	0	Bold style
italicBit	1	Italic style
ulineBit	2	Underlined style
outlineBit	3	Outlined style
shadowBit	4	Shadowed style
condense	5	Condensed style
extendBit	6	Extended style

If all bits are 0, the low-order byte represents the plain glyph style.