setting font in buttons etc.

Hallo,
i wrote small application with couple of text outputs, dialogs and buttons, but i'm quite disappointed with it's interface:
all child windows (especially buttons) use default font, not that 'nice' ms sans serif 8 or what, used in MessageBox() or so. Is there any (simple) way to set font globally for application? I tried functions like (?) CreateFont(), ChooseFont(), SelectObject(), but as documentation says, it only works for functions like DrawText() or so (eg for current window and obviously not for it's childs).
Any ideas?

Use Borland's CBuilder, such tasks are easy to accomplish with this great tool.
Else you can only do the following : buttons must be owner-drawn, and follow the not-so-easy way you just described.
I faced these problems, too, since I've got to use Visual C++, and it seems to be no other, easier way :(.
Or use skins for your interface.

For more ideas and help try these links:

http://www.codeproject.com/ (good stuff here!)
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/

Have fun! :D

Damn! i feared that :(

I tried the way you had described with doing the following "I tried functions like (?) CreateFont(), ChooseFont(), SelectObject(), but as documentation says, it only works for functions like DrawText() or so (eg for current window and obviously not for it's childs).
", but have had no sucess. Did you ever get it worked out? Can you describe the "buttons must be owner-drawn, and follow the not-so-easy way you just described"
Thanks

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