RE: Re: Default Font Bolded

Thank you for your support!

 

Cheers,

Nenad

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of yarp
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [wtl] Re: Default Font Bolded

 

  

Hi Nenad,
> You *don't* want to use that font. So, you
> have to create and select a font before drawing text.
Didn't got that. 

My remark on AtlDefaultGuiFont was based on what I have read on OldNewThing
blog ("...Windows itself stopped using it in favor of the various fonts
returned"). I realize things are -not surprinsingly- more complex.

Thanks for the explanations and links. 
Also thanks so much for your involvement in WTL. I can't tell how much I
love working with this Library.

Yarp

--- In [email protected] <mailto:wtl%40yahoogroups.com> , "Nenad
Stefanovic" <nenad2001@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Yarp,
> 
> The "default" font for DC is SYSTEM_FONT, which is bold-only bitmap font
> (the one you can see in WinDiff). You *don't* want to use that font. So,
you
> have to create and select a font before drawing text.
> 
> For general discussion about fonts:
> 
> There is nothing wrong with AtlGetDefaultGuiFont() if you understand that
it
> is not a universal font solution. It gives you the font which is the same
as
> "MS Shell Dlg". The better solution for applications is to use desired
font
> directly.
> 
> Using fonts from NONCLIENTMETRICS is OK for their intended use, but not
for
> something else. For example, if you have Edit-based view window, and you
use
> Caption font, then your Edit view font will depend on the user setting for
> the Caption font. The same for other fonts in NONCLIENTMETRICS.
> 
> 
> 
> OldNewThing blog has fantastic information, but is sometimes hard to
> understand. Here is another excellent blog discussing these topics:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/06/11/626100.aspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/03/18/554308.aspx
> 
> All this reminded me that we should review and make sure that font
handling
> in WTL is correct. We will do that.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nenad
>
> 





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