From ragecreations at gmail.com  Wed Nov 19 22:20:16 2008
From: ragecreations at gmail.com (Rage Creation)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:20:16 -0600
Subject: [Texas] Changing the font of the Console module
Message-ID: <84c629f80811191320p483d1466j36354d11024af1b5@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone, I am a new Python coder using the Console module with a
(hopefully simple) question:
I want to use a fixed-width font for my program, but the Console module
seems to lack a font attribute. I tried using sys.font = "White Rabbit" (my
fixed width font) and it ran with no errors but the output did not change. I
also looked inside of Console.py but there was no setting of a font there,
either.
Any advice?

-Anthony
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From walker.hale.iv at gmail.com  Thu Nov 20 18:06:23 2008
From: walker.hale.iv at gmail.com (Walker Hale IV)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:06:23 -0600
Subject: [Texas] Changing the font of the Console module
In-Reply-To: <84c629f80811191320p483d1466j36354d11024af1b5@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <312f43620811200906x59349a63rab6039edb41658a7@mail.gmail.com>

Are you referring to the console module for Jython or something else?

In general, adding an attribute that does not already exist to a
module will have no effect.

-- 
Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I am a new Python coder using the Console module with a
> (hopefully simple) question:
> I want to use a fixed-width font for my program, but the Console module
> seems to lack a font attribute. I tried using sys.font = "White Rabbit" (my
> fixed width font) and it ran with no errors but the output did not change. I
> also looked inside of Console.py but there was no setting of a font there,
> either.
> Any advice?
>
> -Anthony

From ragecreations at gmail.com  Sat Nov 22 04:58:31 2008
From: ragecreations at gmail.com (Rage Creation)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:58:31 -0600
Subject: [Texas] Changing the font of the Console module
In-Reply-To: <312f43620811200906x59349a63rab6039edb41658a7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <84c629f80811191320p483d1466j36354d11024af1b5@mail.gmail.com>
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Using the Console module as described here:
http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm
Is there a way to change the system font so that all fonts used within the
program follow that?
Or a way to modify the Console module to adjust what font its using (it has
to be reading a font from somewhere, right?)
Thanks,

Anthony

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Walker Hale IV
<walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you referring to the console module for Jython or something else?
>
> In general, adding an attribute that does not already exist to a
> module will have no effect.
>
> --
> Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone, I am a new Python coder using the Console module with a
> > (hopefully simple) question:
> > I want to use a fixed-width font for my program, but the Console module
> > seems to lack a font attribute. I tried using sys.font = "White Rabbit"
> (my
> > fixed width font) and it ran with no errors but the output did not
> change. I
> > also looked inside of Console.py but there was no setting of a font
> there,
> > either.
> > Any advice?
> >
> > -Anthony
>



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From walker.hale.iv at gmail.com  Mon Nov 24 01:08:07 2008
From: walker.hale.iv at gmail.com (Walker Hale IV)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:08:07 -0600
Subject: [Texas] Changing the font of the Console module
In-Reply-To: <84c629f80811211958x1b28925djd6f17e15c085c2a4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <84c629f80811191320p483d1466j36354d11024af1b5@mail.gmail.com>
	<312f43620811200906x59349a63rab6039edb41658a7@mail.gmail.com>
	<84c629f80811211958x1b28925djd6f17e15c085c2a4@mail.gmail.com>
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Short Answer:

Give up. You are so deep into Windows API nastiness that you can't see daylight.


Long Answer:

You can't do anything in Python that you can't do in C.

Fredrik Lundh's Console module does not support setting the font. This
module is mostly some C code that accesses a few of the console
functions in Win32.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073(VS.85).aspx

Any deficiencies in this module might be overcome by calling Win32
functions directly using either the ctypes module or using the pywin32
library:

http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html

http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/pywin32/PyWin32.HTML
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/pywin32/win32console.html

In fact you could use either ctypes or pywin32 as a replacement for
the Console module, but the API wouldn't be as nice.

Now pywin32/win32console does not contain all of the functions in
Win32. In particular, the one function for dealing with fonts is
missing...

Microsoft discourages using custom fonts in consoles.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/16/2659903.aspx

The only way a font can appear in a console is if that font has been
added to a magic spot in the registry. This makes the font available
in the Properties page for the console (when you open the menu in the
upper-left).

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/RegistryTips/Miscellaneous/ConsoleFonts.html

Theoretically, C code can set a console to use one of those specially
registered fonts, but I haven't found any examples of people
successfully doing it.


Bottom Line:

You are at the beginning of a long, hard road. Python will neither
help nor hurt you. The problems you face are the same as for a C
programmer.

If you still want to attempt this you will need to:

* Add your font to the magic spot in the registry, giving it a number.
* Verify that you can use that font in a standard console window by
selecting it in the properties dialog.
* Write special code using ctypes to
** create a new console buffer
** set the font number for the buffer to the corresponding font number
in the registry using SetCurrentConsoleFontEx
** install the new buffer into your console

Or something like that. And it still might not work!

-- 
Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using the Console module as described here:
> http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm
> Is there a way to change the system font so that all fonts used within the
> program follow that?
> Or a way to modify the Console module to adjust what font its using (it has
> to be reading a font from somewhere, right?)
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Walker Hale IV <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are you referring to the console module for Jython or something else?
>>
>> In general, adding an attribute that does not already exist to a
>> module will have no effect.
>>
>> --
>> Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello everyone, I am a new Python coder using the Console module with a
>> > (hopefully simple) question:
>> > I want to use a fixed-width font for my program, but the Console module
>> > seems to lack a font attribute. I tried using sys.font = "White Rabbit"
>> > (my
>> > fixed width font) and it ran with no errors but the output did not
>> > change. I
>> > also looked inside of Console.py but there was no setting of a font
>> > there,
>> > either.
>> > Any advice?

From ragecreations at gmail.com  Tue Nov 25 16:04:37 2008
From: ragecreations at gmail.com (Rage Creation)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:04:37 -0600
Subject: [Texas] Changing the font of the Console module
In-Reply-To: <312f43620811231608p48632f25ld1573ac602739a49@mail.gmail.com>
References: <84c629f80811191320p483d1466j36354d11024af1b5@mail.gmail.com>
	<312f43620811200906x59349a63rab6039edb41658a7@mail.gmail.com>
	<84c629f80811211958x1b28925djd6f17e15c085c2a4@mail.gmail.com>
	<312f43620811231608p48632f25ld1573ac602739a49@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <84c629f80811250704r76286339sf0e0aa6e176c20e9@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks =)

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Walker Hale IV <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>wrote:

> Short Answer:
>
> Give up. You are so deep into Windows API nastiness that you can't see
> daylight.
>
>
> Long Answer:
>
> You can't do anything in Python that you can't do in C.
>
> Fredrik Lundh's Console module does not support setting the font. This
> module is mostly some C code that accesses a few of the console
> functions in Win32.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073%28VS.85%29.aspx>
>
> Any deficiencies in this module might be overcome by calling Win32
> functions directly using either the ctypes module or using the pywin32
> library:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html
>
> http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
> http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/pywin32/PyWin32.HTML
> http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/pywin32/win32console.html
>
> In fact you could use either ctypes or pywin32 as a replacement for
> the Console module, but the API wouldn't be as nice.
>
> Now pywin32/win32console does not contain all of the functions in
> Win32. In particular, the one function for dealing with fonts is
> missing...
>
> Microsoft discourages using custom fonts in consoles.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/16/2659903.aspx
>
> The only way a font can appear in a console is if that font has been
> added to a magic spot in the registry. This makes the font available
> in the Properties page for the console (when you open the menu in the
> upper-left).
>
>
> http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/RegistryTips/Miscellaneous/ConsoleFonts.html
>
> Theoretically, C code can set a console to use one of those specially
> registered fonts, but I haven't found any examples of people
> successfully doing it.
>
>
> Bottom Line:
>
> You are at the beginning of a long, hard road. Python will neither
> help nor hurt you. The problems you face are the same as for a C
> programmer.
>
> If you still want to attempt this you will need to:
>
> * Add your font to the magic spot in the registry, giving it a number.
> * Verify that you can use that font in a standard console window by
> selecting it in the properties dialog.
> * Write special code using ctypes to
> ** create a new console buffer
> ** set the font number for the buffer to the corresponding font number
> in the registry using SetCurrentConsoleFontEx
> ** install the new buffer into your console
>
> Or something like that. And it still might not work!
>
> --
> Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Using the Console module as described here:
> > http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm
> > Is there a way to change the system font so that all fonts used within
> the
> > program follow that?
> > Or a way to modify the Console module to adjust what font its using (it
> has
> > to be reading a font from somewhere, right?)
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Walker Hale IV <
> walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you referring to the console module for Jython or something else?
> >>
> >> In general, adding an attribute that does not already exist to a
> >> module will have no effect.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Rage Creation <ragecreations at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello everyone, I am a new Python coder using the Console module with
> a
> >> > (hopefully simple) question:
> >> > I want to use a fixed-width font for my program, but the Console
> module
> >> > seems to lack a font attribute. I tried using sys.font = "White
> Rabbit"
> >> > (my
> >> > fixed width font) and it ran with no errors but the output did not
> >> > change. I
> >> > also looked inside of Console.py but there was no setting of a font
> >> > there,
> >> > either.
> >> > Any advice?
>



-- 
http://ragecreations.blogspot.com
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