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Chapter 4 - Font Manager / Font Manager Reference

Routines / Getting Font Information

GetFontName

The GetFontName procedure gets the name of a font family that has a specified family ID number.

PROCEDURE GetFontName (familyID: Integer; VAR theName: Str255);

familyID

The font family ID.

theName

On output, this parameter contains the font family name for the font family specified in familyID.

DESCRIPTION

Given a font family ID, the GetFontName procedure returns, in the parameter theName, the name of the font family. If the font specified in the familyID parameter does not exist, theName contains an empty string.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro for the GetFontName procedure is

Trap macro
_GetFontName