Re: create font for all classes in a MFC project?

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On 16 Aug., 13:17, David Lowndes <Dav...@example.invalid> wrote:

I`ve installed a public font object (CFont m_font;) in the specific
class; moreover I get the same error if I set the font using the
resource editor


You've got something odd happening in your code - quite what though I
don't know.

I suggest that you try an example project with just the font change
code in to reassure yourself that it's not the issue.

Dave


I got the error which was in my code;

By the way, a short question: if I want to use

SendMessageToDescendants( WM_SETFONT,(WPARAM) m_font.m_hObject );

for nearly every item in a dialog; how is it possible to define a new
font which should be only applied to some items?

When I use the same definition (only resize the font) and add the font
SetFont() to an item, nothing happens. If I don`t use
SendMessageToDescendants() the font will be shown as expected...

One short example:

OnInitDialog()
{
LOGFONT lF;
lF.lfHeight = 40;
lF.lfWidth = 0;
lF.lfWeight = FW_NORMAL;
lF.lfItalic = FALSE; //TRUE;
lF.lfUnderline = FALSE; //TRUE;
lF.lfStrikeOut = FALSE; //TRUE;
lF.lfEscapement = 0;
lF.lfOrientation = 0;
wcscpy(lF.lfFaceName,_T("Verdana"));
m_Statfont.CreateFontIndirect(&lF);

m_StatRefL.SetFont(&m_Statfont);
}

m_Statfont is a public member of the class.

best regards
Hans

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