Re: Free Class to get and set Font Smoothing

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:59:26 -0500
Message-ID:
<e69WramWHHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Peter Olcott wrote:

#define FE_FONTSMOOTHINGSTANDARD 1
#define FE_FONTSMOOTHINGCLEARTYPE 2
#define SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE 0x200A
#define SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE 0X200B
#define SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGCONTRAST 0X200C
#define SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGCONTRAST 0X200D

class FontSmoothingType {
private:
  BOOL FontSmoothingEnabled;
  UINT TypeOfFontSmoothing;
  void GetFontSmoothing();
  void ResetFontSmoothing();
public:
   FontSmoothingType(){ GetFontSmoothing(); };
  ~FontSmoothingType(){ ResetFontSmoothing(); };
  void SetClearType();
  void SetNoSmoothing();
};

void FontSmoothingType::GetFontSmoothing() {
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING, 0, &FontSmoothingEnabled,
                       SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
  if (FontSmoothingEnabled)
    SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE, 0, &TypeOfFontSmoothing,
                         SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
}

void FontSmoothingType::ResetFontSmoothing() {
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, FontSmoothingEnabled, 0,
                       SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
  if (FontSmoothingEnabled)
    SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE, 0, (void
*)TypeOfFontSmoothing,
                         SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
}

void FontSmoothingType::SetClearType() {
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, TRUE, 0,
                       SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE, 0, (void
*)FE_FONTSMOOTHINGCLEARTYPE,
                       SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);

}

void FontSmoothingType::SetNoSmoothing() {
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, FALSE, 0,
                       SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
}


Peter:

Does this work on Vista?

And what about Cleartype tuning? There seems to be no Cleartype tuner
for Vista, although for me the default setting seems to work better than
any of the settings on XP for the same hardware (or perhaps the Vista
video driver for my Radeon X1300 card is better).

David Wilkinson

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