Q: how to obtain message box font display property setting

[Gil Clark]

Hey everybody. You know how in Windows Display Properties Appearance you can change the colors and fonts for many system items like menus, 3DObjects, etc. You can obtain the color settings using GetSysColor(), but I was just wondering if anybody out there knew how to obtain the font settings for the items? Particularly the Message Box. I've searched through Code Project and MS Knowledge Base but didn't find anything (probably not using the right keywords or something). Anyone? Thanks

[Roger Allen]

In MFC you shoul dbe able to get a handle to some fonts by using the AUX_DATA structure afxData. It has some fonts in it as HFONT objects. Nit sure if they are the ones you need. Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.

[Maxwell Chen]

Try

SystemParametersInfo( )

Maxwell Chen No code is good code.

[Gil Clark]

I've looked at that already, but didn't find anything. Which action value?

[Maxwell Chen]

Try this, I tried, and changed some values, and my Windows2K got strange...

void CTestMsgFontDlg::OnButton1()
{
NONCLIENTMETRICS ncmOld, ncmTest;

AfxMessageBox(\_T("Test change of font for message boxes."), MB\_OK);
ncmOld.cbSize = sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS);
if(SystemParametersInfo(SPI\_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS, sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS), &ncmOld, 0))
{
	memcpy(&ncmTest, &ncmOld, sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS));
	ncmTest.lfMessageFont.lfUnderline = 1;
	
	AfxMessageBox(\_T("Before change of font for message boxes."), MB\_OK);
	if(SystemParametersInfo(SPI\_SETNONCLIENTMETRICS, sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS), &ncmTest, 0))
	{
		AfxMessageBox(\_T("Message box font changed."), MB\_OK);
		ncmOld.lfMessageFont.lfUnderline = 0;
		SystemParametersInfo(SPI\_SETNONCLIENTMETRICS, sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS), &ncmOld, 0);
		AfxMessageBox(\_T("Message box font restored."), MB\_OK);
	}
}

}

Maxwell Chen No code is good code.

[Gil Clark]

I'd prefer a non-mfc approach (sdk). The only 2 fonts I find in that AUX_DATA structure are StatusFont and ToolTipsFont (at least in the version I have).

[Gil Clark]

Too cool. Thanks. The name of that item is mis-leading. NONCLIENT. I thought it would be the font used for the maximize, minimize, close buttons.