Text in my controls is bold-ish.

For some reason, my controls' text is a little bold-ish (I believe that's how older versions of windows displayed text), this is rather annoying, as my program doesn't match other windows.

YES I did include my manifest (Embeded via resources)
YES I have compared my controls to others with Win Spy++
YES I have propperly (I think) called "InitCommonControlsEx"

Code:

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INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icex;
 icex.dwSize = sizeof(INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX);
 icex.dwICC  = ICC_PROGRESS_CLASS|ICC_INTERNET_CLASSES;
 InitCommonControlsEx(&icex);

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Here is a comparison of my test program VS. another.

~DtD
Also, how do I properly set the window's background color to what is in the user's preferences?
PS> Is there a good, up-to-date website that has tutorials for Windows User Interface related stuff? Not something that teaches you how to do one simple thing and too much more.
PS2> I am using MinGW.

Easy!

See WM_SETFONT and GetStockObject with DEFAULT_GUI_FONT.
Yeah! Since the controls are build with CreateWindowEx, they use some system font thingy.

>>set the window's background color to what is in the user's preferences<<

GetSysColor
GetSysColorBrush
WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE.

Use the latter to determine if a change has been made to the system maintained colours and use either the system brush of that colour(if appropriate) or create a brush as required from that system colour.

Handle the WM_ERASBKGND message and apply the appropriate brush as described.

Search the boards for specific examples of background colour changing (controls are a little different, if you need to explicitly modify their backgrounds) and for examples of changing the font as already described by Joelito above.

@Joelito
Hmmm... that didn't seem to do anything.
Here is what I tried:

Code:

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HGDIOBJ system_font;
HWND my_window
//...
int main(int argc,char **app_param)
{
//...
//Window creation
//...
//UI creation
//...
system_font=GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT);
SendMessage(my_window,WM_SETFONT,(WPARAM)system_font,true);//I tried true and false.
}

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I also tried putting it before "UI Creation".

My other attempt was:

Code:

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//Declarations, int main(), window and UI creation, ect...
LRESULT WINAPI WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam)
{
 HDC hdc;
 PAINTSTRUCT ps;

 switch(uMsg)
 {
 case WM_PAINT:
  hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
  //Set the font
  system_font=SelectObject(hdc,GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT));
  SendMessage(my_window,WM_SETFONT,(WPARAM)system_font,false);
  EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
  return 0;
 //...
 }

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@Ken Fitlike
Got it working, thanks!

Code:

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my_class.hbrBackground=GetSysColorBrush(COLOR_3DFACE);

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~DtD

You have to call WM_SETFONT for each control you use. Here is another method (among many I've tried) that works nicely in setting your font to the same as used in MessageBoxes:

Code:

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HFONT
getSystemFont(HWND hwnd)
{
    static HFONT systemFont = NULL;

    if(systemFont == NULL)
    {
        NONCLIENTMETRICS ncm = {sizeof(ncm)};
        SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS, 0, &ncm, 0);
        systemFont = CreateFontIndirect(&ncm.lfMessageFont); /* use messagebox font */
    }
    return systemFont;
}

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Then simply call getSystemFont whenever you need a handle to this font.

I had this problem recently. I'm not sure why it is happening! A quick

Code:

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SendMessage(hwndcontrol,WM_SETFONT,(WPARAM)GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT),MAKELPARAM(1,0));

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in WM_CREATE sorted it our though.

At: @nthony
I don't understand why you are using this, just so all fonts are the same? Well, I have a set of functions for creating all my controls and windows, so I just threw the code in them.

@chrishowarth
Thanks! I didn't use WM_CREATE, but your code worked!

~DtD

The purpose of getSystemFont() is that you would call it whenever you needed a handle to the "normal" font (i.e. when you create your controls). I use it over GetStockObject(...) because that function is quirky when it comes to different OSs/themes . I.E. MSDN even mis-documents that it returns X font here, and Y font there, and when testing it, I found it did not return the font I expected in Win98 SE, so I asked around until I found a method that seemed to work properly on all OSs.