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Re: System font

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Subject: Re: System font
From: Eric Richards <erockus at earthlink dot net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:16:00 -0600
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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


In some cases that would depend on your type of program, would it not ?
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