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From: marc@metapyr.UUCP ( The Karate Kid )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Setting ListBox font
Message-ID: <956@metapyr.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 13:44:02 GMT
References: <1355@msa3b.UUCP> <2915@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: marc@metapyr.UUCP (Marc Paige - The Karate Kid )
Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <2915@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> carlc@mars.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Carl Christofferson) writes:
>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, ...);
>>
>
>If your list box is in a dialog box, its real simple.  First, get a handle
>to the desired font,
>     hDesiredFont = GetStockObject (XXX_FONT);  // I used SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT
>
>Then, in the WM_INITDIALOG in your dialog box code, send a WM_SETFONT message
>to the list box:
>     case WM_INITDIALOG:
>          SendDlgItemMessage (hDlg, ID_CONTROL, WM_SETFONT, hDesiredFont, 0L);
>          // ID_CONTROL is the ID you gave to your list box, ie IDL_LISTBOX
>          // other code as desired
>          break;
>
>That's it!  Hope this helps.
>
>Carl Christofferson
>carlc@mars.SanDiego.NCR.COM
>disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed are entirely my own ... 

The control does not have to be in a dialog box!  The WM_SETFONT message can
be sent to any window at any time!  I've done this to show a change of focus
for MDI child windows and the title bar (pretty cool effect).  Just load the
desired font and then force a repaint of the frame (WM_NCPAINT) and voila a
new font in the title bar.  The WM_PAINT with the new font from WM_SETFONT
will cause the contents of a control to be painted correctly.  Windows has
come a long way with this feature.  BTW, I'm also VERY glad to see that they
added the extended dialog box call.  I hate using file statics or globals to
configure complex dialogs.  Now I can pass the handle to a nice structure
describing the configuration.  "Isn't that special?!"  


I hope this is the last of this.  Remember a window is a window is a window.
Pretty much anything you can do to a window of your own class can be done to
a window of the standard classes.  AND you can always subclass to do the
things that the standard classes can't do.


Marc Paige

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