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[Marty001 0]

I have a Font (ttf) added to my resource file, It is a graphical in-house font that has icons for Tbutton etc, however is there a way to add the font to a TImageList? so that each character is a separate image?

 

Using Delphi 11.2 on Windows 11 Pro 64bit

Edited November 16, 2022 by Marty001

[FPiette 393]

This article explain how to use a font without installing it. This is not Delphi but make almost only use of Windows API which you can use from Delphi. Once the font is loaded, you can use it to paint individual characters to bitmaps and add them to TImageList.

[David Heffernan 2454]

Remember that font glyphs are usually vector images and so rasterising into an image list may not be ideal, depending on your usage. My guess is that rasterising every glyph from a font ahead of time is terribly wasteful. You may run out of resources. Why don't you just draw each glyph on demand when you need to?