Re: System font

[Aaron Ballman <aaron at realsoftware dot com>]

> > > 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.
You should always stick to the system settings since that is what the 
user has selected for their OS.  ;-)
~Aaron
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