CreateFont() issues

[ten foot ninja]

Hello,
I'm trying to create my own font on Symbian and provide my own character string. My code is as follows:

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menuFont->CreateSurface( GDSURFACE_SYSTEMMEMORY, mbmName, EMbmMenufont ); GDFONTFX fontfx; fontfx.lTracking = 0; HRESULT result=0; _TCHAR fontChars[] = {_T("0123456789 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÁ|£ÉÍ%Ó&:(Ú_Ý>=!?.,'-*abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzá~[é{í@ó;^<ú`ý+")}; //_TCHAR fontChars[] = {_T(" !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~_")}; if ( result = menuFont->CreateFont(fontChars, RGB(255, 0, 255), GDCREATEFONT_TRACKING, &fontfx) != GD_OK ) {     _ASSERT(false); }

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and everytime, the call to CreateFont() fails (for reasons other than those in the docs). if, however, i use the default string (commented out above) it works.

And whats more, it doesn't seem to use the font bmp i provided, it shows characters i haven't defined in the bmp font file. As if it is by passing my font surface and using some default font

This only happens with symbian, when i run it on Win32, everything works wonderfully. Anyone got any hints/ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[ten foot ninja]

So there is nothing wrong with my code? there is a bug in the symbian library?

[Johan]

Hm. Maybe you can try to just replace a few characters at the time? Maybe just start with changing one character at a time to see if it's one of the character codes it has issues with?

Also, the default string begins with a space. Can you try using that format also?

//Johan

[ten foot ninja]

Yup, starting with a space worked. Make sure not to have any 'white space' pixels on the left most edge.