On 01/20/2010 09:40 PM, Nestal Wan wrote: > I have a FT_Face and I want to get the filename of the file it is > loaded from. I know that this FT_Face is loaded from one of the font > in the fontconfig database, so I try to create an FcPattern from and > FT_Face and do a match. I hope this is exactly what the code do. I don't think that's possible. Maybe it is if you dig into FT_Face internals. behdad > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Maybe you can explain what you are trying to achieve? >> >> The face index can be accessed using face->face_index. There's no way to get >> the filename from the face. >> >> behdad >> >> On 01/20/2010 11:27 AM, Nestal Wan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to FontConfig. I have a FT_Face and I want to get the >>> filename and font index from it. I found FcFreeTypeQueryFace() should >>> be useful. However, what should I put in the second and third >>> argument? I don't quite understand what is mean by "used solely as >>> data for pattern elements" as mentioned in the man page. I tried to >>> put NULL and zero but the call fails. If I put something non-zero, the >>> call success: >>> >>> // something non-null >>> FcChar8 abc[1] ; >>> >>> FcBlanks *b = FcBlanksCreate() ; >>> FcPattern *p = FcFreeTypeQueryFace( face, abc, 0, b ) ; >>> >>> FcChar8 *filename2 ; >>> FcResult result ; >>> FcPattern *matched = FcFontMatch( 0, p, &result); >>> >>> if (FcPatternGetString (matched, FC_FILE, 0, &filename2) != FcResultMatch) >>> std::cout << "oops" << std::endl ; >>> >>> int id ; >>> if (FcPatternGetInteger (matched, FC_INDEX, 0, &id) != FcResultMatch) >>> std::cout << "oops2" << std::endl ; >>> >>> std::cout << "file is " << filename2 << " " << id << std::endl ; >>> >>> It actually works. I want to ask if it is OK to put some dummy >>> non-null pointer to the function? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Nestal >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fontconfig mailing list >>> Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig