Subj : outline letters
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : jacobbaartse
Date : Tue Apr 05 2005 08:48 pm

I found an example of outline letters on the internet
http://www.geocities.com/foetsch/extrude/extrude.htm

but could not get the first step to work in Borland Builder c++ 6

Does anybody have any experiance with this type of usage of True type fonts 
to get an outline letter.

with the bottom sample I can not get any text on the image


void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{

  Image1->Canvas->Font->Color = clBlack;
  Image1->Canvas->Font->Name =  "Comic Sans MS";

  // open a path bracket
  BeginPath(Image1->Canvas->Handle);

  // print some text
  TextOut(Image1->Canvas->Handle, 20, 20, "Some text", 9);

  // close the path bracket
  EndPath(Image1->Canvas->Handle);
}

.