Windows XP and the Large Fonts Setting

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Hi all:

Many moons ago, back in the days of 95/NT, I was badly bitten by the large font thing, and learned to be very careful to do all my dialog window/control manipulations in dialog units. After I did this, my dialogs would display correctly when the user selected Large Fonts.

Recently, working on an XP machine, I have doing a major reworking of this app, and today I decided to test it using the Large (and Extra large) font setting. I was surprised to find that, although the caption and menu fonts increased in size, and the MessageBox's, the dialog fonts (and therefore the dialogs) in my app did not change in size. After some panic, I found that dialogs in other applications did not change either. This happened on both the XP machines in my house, both using classic theme and XP theme. Restarting the machines did not change anything.

Is this normal on XP? It seems wrong to me. I mean, the MessageBox's (which are a kind of simple dialog) use the large fonts, but other dialogs don't.

TIA,

David Wilkinson
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