reaper. ShowConsoleMsg font

[dangguidan]

reaper. ShowConsoleMsg
Can the display font in this function be adjusted?
I can't remember which version started, and the Chinese fonts in this window are particularly ugly.

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Yes it's possible to change the font. However, it must be set every time the console opens.
And you always have to try out, which of the supported fonts to use.

It's not possible to have a script that always sets the same font, but multiple scripts that set one font and it changes, which script represents which font this time.
It's a Reaper limitation...

And there are just 10 or so different fonts available.

[dangguidan]

Thank you for your reply. Which API is used to set fonts?

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Here's a function I wrote some time ago. The parameter "style" must be between 1 and 17.
I couldn't get the individual style become stable, means, sometimes style=1 was bold, later it was italic, later it was underlined, etc.
So I could only nail the individual styles to 19 different ones but what each style means, changes.
So you need to check this probably with every new Reaper start...

function SetReaScriptConsole_FontStyle(style)
-- parameter style must be between 1 and 19

  local translation = reaper.JS_Localize("ReaScript console output", "DLG_437")

  local reascript_console_hwnd = reaper.JS_Window_Find(translation, true)
  if reascript_console_hwnd==nil then return false end
  local styles={32,33,36,31,214,37,218,1606,4373,3297,220,3492,3733,3594,35,1890,2878,3265,4392}
  local Textfield=reaper.JS_Window_FindChildByID(reascript_console_hwnd, 1177)
  reaper.JS_WindowMessage_Send(Textfield, "WM_SETFONT", styles[style] ,0,0,0)
end

SetReaScriptConsole_FontStyle(2)

Hope, one of the styles renders chines better...

[dangguidan]

Thanks for your help. Running this function after opening the Console does not automatically refresh to a new font. I must click on the window to change it.
In addition,Can I set the font size?

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Nope. These 19 options are all you have currently.

[Edgemeal]

Originally Posted by Meo-Ada Mespotine

Here's a function I wrote some time ago.

Cool trick! I always wanted to make the text in the console a bit easier to see!

EDIT, Updated my Msg function, note I set lparam to 1 (make it redraw) otherwise font wasn't set on very first usage.

function msg(str) 
  reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(tostring(str) .. '\n') -- show msg
  local hwnd = reaper.JS_Window_FindTop("ReaScript console output", true) -- get console window
  if hwnd then
    reaper.JS_WindowMessage_Send(reaper.JS_Window_FindChildByID(hwnd, 1177), "WM_SETFONT", 32, 0, 1, 0) -- set font bolder then normal
    reaper.JS_Window_Show(hwnd, "SHOWNA") -- bring console to front but do not focus
  end
end

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Does the font stay the same in your function after every restart of Reaper? That was the reason I never released it with Ultraschall-Api.

[Edgemeal]

Originally Posted by Meo-Ada Mespotine

Does the font stay the same in your function after every restart of Reaper? That was the reason I never released it with Ultraschall-Api.

Restarted like a dozen times and seems OK, but I'm also just restarting REAPER and running a test script (using the msg function above), and not really doing much of anything else, but so far so good. I'll report back if it doesn't.

[Edgemeal]

I'm guessing this will work for most any 'Edit' class window, So tried it on the media item Source Properties window, works there as well.

I'm calling WavInfoFont() from a defer loop...

function SetFont(hwnd, childId)
  reaper.JS_WindowMessage_Send(reaper.JS_Window_FindChildByID(hwnd, childId), "WM_SETFONT", 32, 0, 1, 0)
end

local prev_WAV_info
function WavInfoFont()
  local hwnd = reaper.JS_Window_FindTop(".WAV file info" ,true) 
  if hwnd and (prev_WAV_info ~= hwnd) then
    prev_WAV_info = hwnd
    SetFont(hwnd, 0x40E) 
  end 
end

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Hmm, I hope it stays like this. Would love to finally release the function after 2 years of it being in limbo XD

I think, maybe the dev's change of the font to monospace could have made it more stable...

Have never tried it on other dialogs before

[dangguidan]

Thank yous for yours help. Now the font can be displayed correctly, and the display is very clear! That is great!

[Edgemeal]

Originally Posted by Meo-Ada Mespotine

Hmm, I hope it stays like this. Would love to finally release the function after 2 years of it being in limbo XD

I think, maybe the dev's change of the font to monospace could have made it more stable...

Have never tried it on other dialogs before

I don't get how this even works, MSDN says wParam is supposed to be a handle to a font. I'm simply setting it to 32 and getting bold text.

Seems OK though, I don't see any leaks of reaper.exe in Win10, handle count, memory usage and GDI count all seem stable.