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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Setting ListBox font
Message-ID: <56928@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 06:30:07 GMT
References: <1355@msa3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1355@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>How does one set the font for a listbox?  The only thing I can find
>about changing fonts in TFM is for TextOut. i.e.
>   SelectObject (hDC, hFont);
>   TextOut (hDC, ...);
>
>The only way I can see to use this information would be with an owner-draw
>listbox (and that LOOKS like a lot of work to me).

Yes, you will have to do an owner-draw listbox.  It is a little more work
but not terribly bad (esp. since you only want to change the font)  The 
interface to the listbox still works the same (LB_ADDSTRING, LB_FINDSTRING,
etc.) but you need to provide drawing code.

As an aside, the only Windows-provided control that you can change the
font in (that I know of) is a dialog box.  In this case add the DS_SETFONT 
attribute to
the dialog style then send a WM_SETFONT message in the dialog's 
WM_INITDIALOG code.

[Dang VI.  How do you join lines again... ;-) ]

Sorry it isn't easier.

Ken Sykes
Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.