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Knyght:
Not sure if thise is the right forum, or if I should be asking at all, but I don't know where else to ask, so here goes.

from wingdi.h, included by windows.h.

hFont = GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FONT);

This should work. msdn says the function should be HGDIOBJ GetStockObject(int fnObject); which looks right for what I'm doing.

I looked in wingdi.h and the function declaration is the same.

However, when I run it in codeblocks I get "error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'HFONT__*'. This seems odd.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it a problem elsewhere?

Thanks.

sethjackson:
This should work.  :D


--- Code: (cpp) ---hFont = static_cast<HFONT>(GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FONT));

--- End code ---

thomas:

--- Code: ---typedef void *HGDIOBJ;
[...]
WINGDIAPI HGDIOBJ WINAPI GetStockObject(int);
[...]
HFONT hFont = GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FONT);

--- End code ---

No problem, that's perfectly right. The compiler says exactly what you do.
Try casting to HFONT as Seth said.

sethjackson:
BTW see here for why.

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/errors.html#C2440

DO NOT cast the way they suggested.  :P

static_cast, and it's friends are sooooo much better. :)

thomas:

--- Quote from: sethjackson on February 06, 2006, 09:37:42 pm ---DO NOT cast the way they suggested.  :P
static_cast, and it's friends are sooooo much better. :)

--- End quote ---
Casting is a hack anyway, so why make such a fuzz about it :P

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