Question

I ordered Programming Windows Fifth Edition a few days ago, and started working with it.

I’m starting to learn the win32 api, however, I got a question. The windows do not look modern winxp/win vista/win 7 style at all. How do I fix this?

It currently looks like this, crap font and all.

Thanks in advance!

Machiel

Answer 1

To get the font right you should call this after CreateWindow(Ex):

NONCLIENTMETRICS ncm;
ncm.cbSize = sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS);
::SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS, sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS), &ncm, 0);
HFONT hFont = ::CreateFontIndirect(&ncm.lfMessageFont);
::SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hFont, MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0));