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From: djvelleman@amherst.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Font in pop-up menu
Message-ID: <10172.26f5f045@amherst.bitnet>
Date: 18 Sep 90 10:00:37 GMT
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In article <44894@apple.Apple.COM>, kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim) writes:
> In article <1990Sep17.023442.29108@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>>How do I change the font of a pop-up menu? It currently appears in
>>the system font (Chicago 12), but I would prefer it in Geneva 9, which
>>is the current port font. The buttons for the menus are all in Geneva 9.
>>
> 
> Is this your own popup code, or are you using someone else's.  If it's your
> own, you're up against a wall: MDEF 0 likes to do things in System font and
> size.  
> 
> The popup CDEF in the CommToolbox has a useWFont parameter which will 
> save you the trouble.
> 
  I asked a similar question recently and didn't find out what I wanted to
know.  I tried writing a MDEF which changes the system font to the one I want
to use in my menu, calls MDEF 0, and then changes the system font back.  It
didn't work--the menu still came up in Chicago.  How come?
  By the way, something that did work was a MDEF which changes fonts, then
calls a doctored version of MDEF 0 in which all calls to TextFont have been
removed, then restores the font.  Not the most elegant solution, but it saves
you the trouble of rewriting MDEF 0.  Why is MDEF 0 so fussy about the font?
Sometimes you really need a different font in a menu.

  What's this popup CDEF in the CommToolbox?  How do I get it, and how do I
find out how to use it?

     Dan Velleman
     Math Dept.,  Amherst College