I need to write some contents in the text file (notepad), with some specified font, and size .is it possible in C, kindly let me know.
karthiken07 0 Newbie Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Its not possible in any language. Files don't know a thing about fonts. As for Notepad.exe I know of no way to change it from a c program.
jephthah 1,888 Posting Maven
It's more accurate to say that Notepad doesn't know anything about fonts. Notepad is worthless. Forget that it exists.
as for creating custom documents, you can use Windows OLE Automation to programmatically create and modify MS Office documents (Word, Excel, etc.) complete with font and formatting and graphs and images and whatnot.. I guess this extends to Wordpad as well, since it can open basic .RTF and .DOC files.
It's been years since I did this, and I didn't do it in C. (I did it in Perl). all i remember was it was exceedingly tedious due to a poorly-documented API, but the final result (one i finally got it) was good. But i sure wouldn't want to go through it again.
so, if you really want to do this in C, then look it up and good luck. Although, i've got to say you might want to reconsider what you're trying to do, and why.
(PS: If you really want a good text editor, I recommend TextPad. Another good one is CrimsonEditor. Either one can be set to be the default application that opens .TXT files, and it will replace Notepad for good.)
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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
It's more accurate to say that Notepad doesn't know anything about fonts. Notepad is worthless. Forget that it exists.
Notepad does now (win7) and I think it did in previous versions too. Menu Format --> Font. But it uses the same font for everything.
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