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From: bed@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Brian E. Danilko)
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Subject: Re: changing fonts
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Date: 30 Nov 90 14:56:58 GMT
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In article <835@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) writes:
>...Do I really have to use
>OWNERDRAW on all of them, or is there a neater way?

The Microsoft programmer's reference manual, version 1.2, volume 4 
contains a new command - WinSetPresParam - on page 332.  This command
can be used for changing the font using the PP_FONTNAMESIZE or 
PP_FONTHANDLE.  And the bonus part is that under comments on page 333
it is stated that all windows owned by the window calling the 
WinSetPresParam will have a WM_PRESPARAMCHANGED message sent to them.

So if you call the WinSetPresParam in a window owning static windows,
the static windows should take and use the new presentation parameter.
                               - OR -
Do the Microsoft created window classes not use the WM_PRESPARAMCHANGED??

I haven't tried this yet because of time pressures and because of the 
lack of information about the parameters PP_FONTNAMESIZE and PP_FONTHANDLE,
but it may provide a way of changing a font for all windows in an application.

P.S. I once tried changing the file name for the system font in one of the
     ini files to the courier font but it didn't work.  Doesn't OS/2 use 
     the information in it's ini files?
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