Fonts

The Visual Studio SDK provides support for using fonts and colors to display text.

In This Section

• Font and Color Overview
  Discusses text font and color settings in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Also introduces the concepts of Categories and Display Items, and describes how VSPackages and the core editor use text attributes.

• Getting Font and Color Information for Text Colorization
  Provides guidelines for implementing text colorization in VSPackages that manage Categories other than Text Editor.

• Accessing Stored Font and Color Settings
  Explains how current font and color settings can be stored, retrieved, and applied.

• Implementing Custom Categories and Display Items
  Describes the basic steps by which a window can create and use its own of Display Items and Categories to support text display.

  This approach requires a VSPackage to implement the IVsFontAndColorDefaultsProvider interface and related interfaces.

• How to: Access the Built-in Fonts and Color Scheme
  Discusses how to define and register a category by using built-in fonts and colors, and initiate the use of system-provided fonts and colors.

Reference

• IVsFontAndColorDefaultsProvider
  Provides an instance of the IVsFontAndColorDefaults or the IVsFontAndColorGroup interface that corresponds to a particular item listed in the Show Settings For list in the Fonts and Colors page of the Options dialog box.

• IVsFontAndColorDefaults
  Enables a VSPackage to support the IDE Fonts and Colors page by defining default fonts and colors for a window or UI component.

• IVsFontAndColorGroup
  Provides a mechanism by which a VSPackage that provides font and color support can specify a Display Item group - a super-category that represents the union of two or more categories.

• IVsFontAndColorStorage
  Enables a VSPackage to retrieve font and color data, or save it to the registry.

• IVsFontAndColorEvents
  Notifies VSPackages that are using font and color information about changes in font and color settings.

• IVsFontAndColorUtilities
  Provides tools for working with the input and output data that is used by the methods of the Visual Studio Font and Color mechanism.

• IVsFontAndColorCacheManager
  Controls the caching of font and color settings.

Related Sections

• Developing a Language Service
  Discusses how VSPackages can use language services to customize the Visual Studio editor.

• Syntax Coloring in Custom Editors
  Descries how the Visual Studio editor uses language services to implement syntax coloring.

• User Interfaces
  Explains how to use Visual Studio services to create UI elements that match the rest of Visual Studio.