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Chapter 3 - Help Manager / Help Manager Reference

Help Manager Routines / Getting and Setting the Font Name and Size

HMGetFont

To get information about the font that is currently used to display text in help balloons, use the HMGetFont function.

FUNCTION HMGetFont (VAR font: Integer): OSErr;

font

The global font number used to display text in help balloons.

DESCRIPTION

The HMGetFont function returns in its font parameter the global font number used to display text in help balloons. HMGetFont returns this information only for Pascal strings stored in the help resources themselves and for strings from 'STR#' and 'STR ' resources; it does not return information about text in 'PICT' or styled text resources, or in handles to either of these resources.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for the HMGetFont function are

Trap macro	Selector
_Pack14	$020A

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
memFullErr	-108	Not enough room in heap zone

SEE ALSO

The chapter "TextEdit" in Inside Macintosh: Text describes global font numbers.