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From: mcjilton@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (charles mar mcjilton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Fixed Fonts in Windows 3.00
Summary: Any way to do it?
Keywords: Fonts, proportional, editboxes
Message-ID: <8408@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 90 22:38:39 GMT
Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU
Reply-To: mcjilton@handel.UUCP (charles mar mcjilton)
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
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We're developing an application under Windows 3.00, and were having some
problems moving from 2.11 to 3.0.  Most of these problems are because we
were using edit boxes for getting things like state, and under the 
proportional fonts we can get 4 'l's in it, but not something wide like 'CO'.

We were wondering if anyone has successfully set the application device context
to the system fixed font used when Windows 3.0 runs a Windows 2.11 application.
The fixed font is provided for compatability with existing 2.11 apps, but
we haven't found any way to use it.

Failing that we'd like to know if you have any suggestions on setting the 
device context font for a dialog box to the system fixed font.

The resource compiler has a font command, but it only lets you access it by
the "Courier", and "times Roman" type of convention.  It doesn't appear to use
the OEM_FIXEDFONT_ANSI, etc keywords defined in windows.h.

Thanks for any help you can give us.