Thread: Common Font Dialog Box

I have a function that displays the change font dialog box. It changes the font but not the font color interestingly MSDN tells you exactly how to do it but it doesn't work.

Here is the MSDN link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...boxlibrary.asp

Here is my code.

font.h

Code:

#ifndef FONT_H
#define FONT_H

class CFont
{
	public:
	    
	    CFont();
	    ~CFont();
	    
	    bool Change(HWND hParentWindow, HDC hDC, int iEditControlID);
	    
	    HFONT g_hFont;
	    	    
	private:
	    
	    CHOOSEFONT m_cf;
	    
	    LOGFONT m_lf;
	    
	    HFONT m_hFontPrevious;
	    
	    COLORREF m_rgbCurrent, m_rgbPrevious;    
};

#endif // FONT_H

font.cpp

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include "font.h"

CFont::CFont()
{
	
}

CFont::~CFont()
{
	
}

bool CFont::Change(HWND hParentWindow, HDC hDC, int iEditControlID)
{
	ZeroMemory(&m_cf, sizeof(m_cf));
	
	hDC = GetDC(hParentWindow);
		
	m_cf.lStructSize = sizeof(m_cf);
	m_cf.hwndOwner = hParentWindow;
	m_cf.lpLogFont = &m_lf;
	m_cf.rgbColors = m_rgbCurrent;
	m_cf.Flags = CF_SCREENFONTS | CF_EFFECTS;
	
	if(!ChooseFont(&m_cf))
	{       
		return false;        
	}
	
	g_hFont = CreateFontIndirect(m_cf.lpLogFont);		
		
	m_hFontPrevious = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, g_hFont);	
	
	m_rgbCurrent = m_cf.rgbColors;
	   
	m_rgbPrevious = SetTextColor(hDC, m_rgbCurrent);	 	 
	
	SendDlgItemMessage(hParentWindow, iEditControlID, 
                       WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)g_hFont, MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0));	
			
	return true && g_hFont;
}

SetTextColor() only changes the color when your are using a DC draw function like TextOut(). If you just want to change the color of static text, then handle WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC as Ken suggested.

I'm sorta lost this is what I did and nothing happened.

Code:

SendMessage(hParentWindow, WM_CTLCOLOREDIT, (WPARAM)hDC, iEditControlID);

The edit control is created as follows.

Code:

bool CEditControl::Create(DWORD dwStyleEx, DWORD dwStyle, int iX, int iY, 
                          int iWidth, int iHeight, HWND hParentWindow, 
                          HINSTANCE hInstance)
{	    
	g_hEdit = CreateWindowEx(
	          dwStyleEx,
	          "EDIT",
	          NULL,
	          dwStyle,
	          iX,
	          iY,
	          iWidth,
	          iHeight,
	          hParentWindow,
	          (HMENU)g_iEditControlID,
	          hInstance,
	          NULL
	          );

     if(!g_hEdit)
     {
     	MessageBox(hParentWindow, "Can't create edit control!", "Error!",
     	           MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK);
     	return false;
     }    
	          
	SendMessage(g_hEdit, WM_SETFONT, 
	            (WPARAM)GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT),
	            MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0));
	            
	return true && g_hEdit && g_iEditControlID;                    
}

Here is the call to Font.Change

Code:

Font.Change(hwnd, g_hDC, EditControl.g_iEditControlID);

Well I got it to work now thanks. The only problem is when I handle the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message my program ignores my manifest file.
How can I get it to use the Windows XP visual styles now?