Re: Changing fonts in Client View

From:
=?Utf-8?B?c2tpZG1hcmtz?= <skidmarks@discussions.microsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:16:00 -0700
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<39A71578-2B83-45FD-9A25-EAEA717DA98B@microsoft.com>
The lifetime of my CFont object is the same as <name>View. In skeleton form:

Constant.h
  extern LOGFONT lf;
  extern CFont obj;

Constant.cpp
  LOGFONT lf = { <Courier specification> };
  CFont font;

CMainFrame::CMainFrame()
{
   font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf); // Font for text output
}

<name>View.h
  class C<name>View : public CScrollView {}

<name>View.cpp
  C<name>View::C<name>View { SetFont(&font); }

and it crashes in SetFont() on
  ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));

with m_hWnd invalid (this time, I recall it has worked w/o crashing in the
past).

I am doing something dumb. I do not understand what that is. Any help?

art

"Ajay Kalra" wrote:

SetFont will work. You need to make sure that font object lives as long as
the window itself. Make it a member of the class.Here is a KB article of
using SetFont:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q85518/

--
Ajay

"skidmarks" <skidmarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1071E305-574E-42A2-A82F-80E19848808E@microsoft.com...

I'm trying to change the font in a Client View in an MDI application
(<name>View.cpp) and am having trouble. I used SetFonts(LOGFONT* lf) with
Courier and it didn't work. Any idea how to do the nasty deed?

Details: The project contains <name>Doc & <name>View. I and using the
Client
Window controlled by <name>View as a logging output window. The current
font
is a variable font type (system font I suppose) and I'm trying to change
it
to a fixed font (Courier). I have used 'EnumFontFamiliesEx' to get the
LOGFONT structure for Courier and <name>View.SetFont() to change the font.
Doesn't work.

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