NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/programm/misc/1004

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Subject: Fonts question
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From: Alex Vinogradov <[e-mail]>
Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 21:07:33 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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May be someone would be able to help me with the following problem (Microsoft
technical support couldn't):

My application which uses the default SYSTEM font needs to create a dialog
box which has to use MS Sans Serif font.  I specified Suns Serif in the .RC
file and it worked fine for all predefined controls in the dialog box.  The
problems began when I had to add a custom control to the dialog box.  I was
hoping that if I would GetDC (hDlg), where hDlg is the handle to the dialog
box window, I would get a device context with the Sans Serif font in it, but
it wasn't the case: my device context had the default SYSTEM font in it.  I
tried many different things, and the only one which appeared to work was
using WM_GETFONT / WM_SETFONT message handling (and receiving hFont in
wParam).  The problem with it though is that it gives me Sans Serif when I
am converting hFont to logical font by using GetObject (), but when I am trying
to SelectObject (hdc, hFont) and than GetTextMetrics (hdc, &tm), my tm
structure still gets the SYSTEM font in it.

Did anyone had this problem ?  Did anyone found _any_ way to retreive the
metrics of a font used by a dialog box ?

Any info is greatly appreciated.  Please reply via e-mail only to one of the
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