Using a Fixed-Pitch Font in a Dialog Box

Last reviewed: August 13, 1997
Article ID: Q77991

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.1

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with:

    - Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51
    - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0

To use a fixed-pitch font in a dialog box, during the processing of the dialog box initialization message, send the WM_SETFONT message to each control that will use the fixed font. The following code demonstrates this process:

   case WM_INITDIALOG:
     SendDlgItemMessage(hDlg, ID_CONTROL, WM_SETFONT,
           GetStockObject(ANSI_FIXED_FONT), FALSE);
     /*
      * NOTE: This code will specify the fixed font only for the
      * control ID_CONTROL. To specify the fixed font for other
      * controls in the dialog box, additional calls to
      * SendDlgItemMessage() are required.
      */
     break;

Additional query words: 95
Keywords : UsrDlgs kbui kbhowto kbui
Version : WIN: 3.0, 3.1, 4.0; NT: 3.5, 3.51
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: August 13, 1997
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