Font for CButton

hai,

How can we change the font of caption on a button?
I tried with both using CreateFontIndirect and Logfont.

parts of code is given below:-

VERIFY(font.CreateFont(
12, // nHeight
0, // nWidth
0, // nEscapement
0, // nOrientation
FW_NORMAL, // nWeight
FALSE, // bItalic
FALSE, // bUnderline
0, // cStrikeOut
ANSI_CHARSET, // nCharSet
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, // nOutPrecision
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, // nClipPrecision
DEFAULT_QUALITY, // nQuality
DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_SWISS, // nPitchAndFamily
"Ponni")); // lpszFacename

GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON1)->SetFont(&font);

thanks,

saj

One solution is LOGFONT structure.

Code:

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LOGFONT lf;
memset(&font, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));
font.lfHeight = -MulDiv(12, GetDeviceCaps(dc, LOGPIXELSY), 72);
_tcscpy(font.lfFaceName, TEXT("Ponni"));

CFont font;
font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON1)->SetFont(font);

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Kuphryn

Thank you kuphryn for your suggestion, but it is not working for me. I did try with the code you gave, but even then, the font is not changing.
Any idea why this?

saj :confused: :confused: :confused:

Try Win32 solution.

::SendMessage(button.m_hWnd, WM_SETFONT, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(lf), MAKELPARAM(false, 0));

Kuphryn

Code:

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CFont Font;

Font.CreatePointFont(120, _T("Courier"));        // creates a 12-point-Courier-font

m_Button.SetFont(&Font);                        // with a member variable associated
GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON)->SetFont(&Font);        // without a member variable associated

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The 'CFont' variable needs to be a member variable of the dialog containing the button...

Thank you very much, its working....
btw, why the CFont variable needs to be a member variable of dialog class?

Regards
saj:p

Cause if you declared your font inside a function, after the function returned, the font is no longer exist anymore.

if it' s a local varible, the GDI object will be deleted by the destructor of CFont automatically when step out the scope.

Quote:

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Originally posted by saj
Thank you very much, its working....
btw, why the CFont variable needs to be a member variable of dialog class?

Regards
saj:p

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Andreas,
your solution is not working for windows XP when the manifest file is compiled with the application for styles.
I cannot get the XP style button to change font,
please help!

I think fonts are part of the theme, so it will use those instead of the one you pass.

To remove a theme from a window, call
SetWindowTheme(hwnd, L"", L"");

where hwnd is the hwnd of your button.

See if that works?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Brooks Younce

Andreas,
your solution is not working for windows XP when the manifest file is compiled with the application for styles.

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It works perfectly in XP.
Could you post a code snippet that assigns font to a button? Including font creation/retrieval.

sure, here is my code...
it does not work in onInitDlg....
and it does not work in any other functions called at any time.....
this code will set the font fine when the Manifest file is not included at compile time. But this is not acceptable because I want to support XP syles,
thanks in advance for any replies you have...

Code:

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        //create the button font
        //CFont bFont; //this is a member variable in the header class
        LOGFONT lf;
        memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));// zero out structure
        strcpy(lf.lfFaceName, "Verdana");
        lf.lfHeight = 30;
        lf.lfWeight = FW_BOLD;        // nWeight
        bFont.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
        //bFont.CreatePointFont(140,"Verdana"); //this also does not work
        GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON1)->SetFont(&bFont);
        //end button font

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It works. Picture below shows font using your code (bottom button) and using code below (that is similar) for top button.

Code:

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        LOGFONT lf;
        ::GetObject((HFONT)GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT), sizeof(lf), &lf);
       
        CClientDC dc(this);
        strcpy(lf.lfFaceName, "times new roman");
        lf.lfHeight = -MulDiv(13, GetDeviceCaps(dc.m_hDC, LOGPIXELSY), 72);;
       
        m_Font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
        m_Button.SetFont(&m_Font);

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Therefore either your code snippet is not exactly the same as code, or there is something else going on (gremlins).

I copy and pasted that code directly out of my program,
I think Visual Studio 2003 sucks! could that be the problem?
I know everytime I use a Time Control in a program, when I close the compiler, and reopen it, suddenly the stupied compiler has converted my time control into a date control, Microsoft sucks.

What compiler are you using, which Visual Studio version?
Please let me know, thanks!

This is a problem, my code works perfect for every control Except a CButton! I have VS 2002 and VS2003, both compilers will not set the font for a CButton, no matter what I do,
Anyone have any ideas?

Found the problem! It was my theme! I switched to the standard windows XP blue theme and everything was fine, something with my custom theme was causing the font to not change. that is very wierd! :thumb:

Use any code above..
Dont forget to declare CFont variable as member variable( variable of dialog class) and not local variable.
It will work..

Quote:

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Originally Posted by amitgpatil

Use any code above..
Dont forget to declare CFont variable as member variable( variable of dialog class) and not local variable.
It will work..

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Are you sure your tip would be needed after more than six years? :confused: