On 31-Oct-05, at 2:03 PM, Aaron Ballman wrote:
One of the things I noticed when I got my PC was that the user
could change a lot of appearance items in Windows XP. This
doesn't help the RB designer unless they choose their own fonts
and not rely on the System fonts set by the user. Very unfriendly
from a developers standpoint.
Hardly -- the developer has access to any user changeable setting
in the system (whether it's via built-in RB APIs like
SpecialFolder, etc) or via declares (like SystemColors in the
WFS). The one thing the developer should never do is include their
own fonts and use them since that's almost 100% guaranteed not to
be what the user wants.
That sort of implies that it's best to stick with the System Fonts
for Win32. At least, when the user modifies the appearance, the fonts
will appear correct for that theme.
Terry
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