I am trying to embed a font using the following code that I found from this site, however as I'm trying to build, I keep running into an error 'DIGITALDREAMNARROW' is not a member of 'Resources'.
. Can anyone help with where I'm supposed to do this:
Even though I have the font added to a Resources folder. Is there something I'm missing?
http://zerosandtheone.com/blogs/vb/archive/2009/11/20/vb-net-include-a-font-as-an-embedded-resource-in-your-application.aspx
Imports System.Drawing.Text
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Module CustomFont
'PRIVATE FONT COLLECTION TO HOLD THE DYNAMIC FONT
Private _pfc As PrivateFontCollection = Nothing
Public ReadOnly Property GetInstance(ByVal Size As Single, _
ByVal style As FontStyle) As Font
Get
'IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME GETTING AN INSTANCE
'LOAD THE FONT FROM RESOURCES
If _pfc Is Nothing Then LoadFont()
'RETURN A NEW FONT OBJECT BASED ON THE SIZE AND STYLE PASSED IN
Return New Font(_pfc.Families(0), Size, style)
End Get
End Property
Private Sub LoadFont()
Try
'INIT THE FONT COLLECTION
_pfc = New PrivateFontCollection
'LOAD MEMORY POINTER FOR FONT RESOURCE
Dim fontMemPointer As IntPtr = _
Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem( _
My.Resources.DIGITALDREAMNARROW.Length)
'COPY THE DATA TO THE MEMORY LOCATION
Marshal.Copy(My.Resources.DIGITALDREAMNARROW, _
0, fontMemPointer, _
My.Resources.DIGITALDREAMNARROW.Length)
'LOAD THE MEMORY FONT INTO THE PRIVATE FONT COLLECTION
_pfc.AddMemoryFont(fontMemPointer, _
My.Resources.DIGITALDREAMNARROW.Length)
'FREE UNSAFE MEMORY
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(fontMemPointer)
Catch ex As Exception
'ERROR LOADING FONT. HANDLE EXCEPTION HERE
End Try
End Sub
End Module
I downloaded his program source code and it works fine but when I retry it on my end, I get errors. Can anyone help?