Re: FontDlg sample text

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh"  wrote:
> > Please explain:
> > - What kind of a resource should I use, in your opinion?

String resources.
> > - How should I select which resource to load, given a specific locale?

Font charsets doesn't depend on the current user locale. So, just create
LANG_NEUTRAL resource with strings for each charset you want and IDs something
like:

#define CHARSET_BASE 1000

STRINGTABLE
{
    ANSI_CHARSET+CHARSET_BASE    "AaBbYyZz"
    DEFAULT_CHARSET+CHARSET_BASE "AaBbYyZz"
    SYMBOL_CHARSET+CHARSET_BASE  "Symbol"
    ...
}

and load them when you need to display sample text:

char sample[256];

hfont = CreateFontIndirectA(...)
SelectObject(hdc, hfont);
charset = GetTextCharset(hdc);
LoadStringW(hinst_comdlg32, CHARSET_BASE + charset, sample, 256);
DrawTextW(hdc, sample);
> Make that: "How should I select which resource to load, given a specific 
> charset?"
> > - What is the advantage of this mechanism?

I mentioned at least one already: make it easily available for translators.

You could always have a look at the traces produced by native comdlg32,
since it uses an approach described above, and learn how it's done there.