Font.FreePart of Font module

Syntax   Font.Free (fontID : int)

Description   Font.Free is used to release a font that is no longer needed. There is a limit to the number of fonts that may be defined at any one time. By having a Font.Free for every Font.New, the number of simultaneously defined fonts is kept to a minimum.

Details   If Font.Free is passed an invalid font ID, a fatal error occurs. If the Font.Free call fails for other (non-fatal) reasons, Error.Last will return a non-zero value indicating the reason for the failure. Error.LastMsg will return a string which contains the textual version of the error.

Example   The program prints out several phrases in a variety of fonts.

        var font1, font2, font3, font4 : int
        font1 := Font.New ("serif:12")
        assert font1 > 0
        font2 := Font.New ("sans serif:18:bold")
        assert font2 > 0
        font3 := Font.New ("mono:9")
        assert font3 > 0
        font4 := Font.New ("Palatino:24:Bold,Italic")
        assert font4 > 0
        Font.Draw ("This is in a serif font", 50, 30, font1, red)
        Font.Draw ("This is in a sans serif font", 50, 80, font2, brightblue)
        Font.Draw ("This is in a mono font", 50, 130, font3, colorfg)
        Font.Draw ("This is in Palatino (if available)", 50, 180, font4, green)
        Font.Free (font1)
        Font.Free (font2)
        Font.Free (font3)
        Font.Free (font4)

Execute  

Status   Exported qualified.

This means that you can only call the function by calling Font.Free, not by calling Free.