11-15-2022, 11:10 PM
If Windows allows the "systemwide" font to be changed, even if it could look ugly, it might be crazy enough to produce an Unicode character. What sucks is trying to determine which font. Also get it to cooperate displaying title bars and stuff like that, not just File Explorer display or dialog box content.
This is the main reason why an extension of OpenGL offers a toolkit for creating dialog boxes, windows, buttons, menus etc. which don't call on any "native" operating system function, but the programmer has to handle all the drawing and event handling. The "characters" have to be drawn like any other shapes, or a font has to be created like the "Roman" one that comes with OpenGL that I saw somewhere in the library creation while building QB64PE executable. Now I'm not sure about this but at least one game library has it.
This is the main reason why an extension of OpenGL offers a toolkit for creating dialog boxes, windows, buttons, menus etc. which don't call on any "native" operating system function, but the programmer has to handle all the drawing and event handling. The "characters" have to be drawn like any other shapes, or a font has to be created like the "Roman" one that comes with OpenGL that I saw somewhere in the library creation while building QB64PE executable. Now I'm not sure about this but at least one game library has it.