Re: Dialog Fonts

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Hamish wrote:
> Hi. I've got an application with a bunch of controls on it, eg, static text.
> I'd sized and laid out everything so that it looks good. But i've found that
> when i install on other computers with different font settings, my dialog is
> all screwed up.
>
> How do I get what the system font is? and how do i set my controls fonts to
> be the font and size that i want?


If what you are after is the default gui font of the system, you can
try with:

LOGFONT stLF;

::GetObject( (HFONT)GetStockObject( DEFAULT_GUI_FONT ), sizeof( stLF ),
&stLF );

.

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