On Nov 2, 2005, at 15:17, Patrick Lam wrote: > Travis Griggs wrote: >> I'm trying to use XftListFonts() to list fonts. The problem is... >> after >> digging through header files, I can't figure out how one goes >> from the >> FcFontSet* returned by this thing to something you can display in a >> dialog. Because I can't find the definition of an _FcPattern. I'm >> running on debian testing, and I have the fontconfig- dev package >> loaded, so I don't know what gives. > > The FcPattern contents are opaque. However, what you probably want to > do is to iterate over the array in the FcFontSet and call e.g. > FcPatternGetString (p, FC_FAMILY, 0, &s); to get the family name of an > FcPattern (returned in s). Just out of curiosity, what's the 3rd parameter for? The man page makes it sound like I simply give it a pointer, which it then points at the internal character array. I don't actually need my own buffer, I'm assuming. And the fact that your example shows a 0 there would support that. So what's it do? TIA -- Travis Griggs Objologist "Conference calls: the appearance of doing work without the substance thereof" -- Bruce Boyer ----------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This email is bound by the terms and conditions described at http://www.key.net/disclaimer.htm
