Subj : Re: system font
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 03:54 pm

Jack Sawatzky wrote:

>When I call CreateFont() with "SYSTEM" it gives me a font that is
>ten pixels high, no matter how low I set the Weight and Height
>parameters.  The font I want is 9 pixels high; it is the font you
>see in nearly every Windows listing. Therefore "system" may not
>be the right name.

>   EnumFontFamilies() wont do me any good,
>because I don't know what name to look for.

I suggested that so you could see if SYSTEM was actually a font on
your computer. (It's not on mine, but yours could be different)

>  MS Shell Dlg didn't get me anywhere either.

Show your code? And what was the actual result?
 "didn't get me anywhere" isn't very useful.

>The font I want is everywhere in Windows.  It must be available
>somehow.  How?

Do you need the font for some special purpose?

No font needed here....
	case WM_PAINT:
		hdc=BeginPaint(hWnd,&ps);
		SetMapMode(hdc,MM_TEXT);
		SetBkMode( hdc, TRANSPARENT );
		TextOut(hdc, 200, 10, szMsg4, strlen(szMsg4) );
		TextOut(hdc, 200, 30, szMsg5, strlen(szMsg5) );
		TextOut(hdc, 10, 50+10, szMsg1, strlen(szMsg1) );
		TextOut(hdc, 10, 90+10, szMsg2, strlen(szMsg2) );
		TextOut(hdc, 10, 130+10, szMsg3, strlen(szMsg3) );
		EndPaint(hWnd,&ps);
		break;

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