changing Windows menu font size from VFP

• Jun 16, 2005

• #2

bborissov

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May 3, 2005

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Why you want to do that?
The user has been made Her/His adjustments for the Windows and I am sure S/He doesn't want somebody to mess with Her/His adjustments.
If you want just to resize your application MENU. Build the menu with Menu Designer. Open YourMenuName.MPR and on every DEFINE ... COMMAND you can put FONT "FontName",nFontSize STYLE cFontStyle.
So you can put the font size in variable and use it, but remember to initialize this variable BEFORE DO YourMenu somethig like that:

Code:

nMenuFontSize = 12

DEFINE POPUP _medit MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4 FONT "Arial", nMenuFontSize 
DEFINE BAR _mfi_save OF _medit  PROMPT "\<Save" ;
    FONT "Arial", nMenuFontSize ;
    KEY CTRL+S, "Ctrl+S" ;
    PICTRES _mfi_save ;
    MESSAGE "Saves changes to the current file"
DEFINE BAR _mfi_savas OF _medit  PROMPT "Save \<As..." ;
    PICTRES _mfi_savas ;
    FONT "Arial", nMenuFontSize ;
    MESSAGE "Saves changes to the current file with a new name"

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Borislav Borissov

 

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• Jun 16, 2005

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• #3

tsilviu

Programmer

Jun 16, 2005

2

RO

VFP8 Help says:
"The FONT clause is ignored for menu titles added to the Visual FoxPro system menu _MSYSMENU".
So... how i change the size of the _MSYSMENU?

 

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• Jun 16, 2005

• #4

bborissov

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May 3, 2005

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BG

There is no way to change _MSYSMENU FontSize, if you don't use API to Change The Menu font for whole Windows. But As I said I personaly don't want to mess with system setting of the Windows, For your information check:

http://www.universalthread.com/wconnect/wc.dll?LevelExtreme~2,84,14,7959

This is function writen for Caption font, but it can be easy modified for Menu one.

Borislav Borissov

 

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• Jun 16, 2005

• #5

craigber

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May 5, 2003

1,092

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Don't do this. As others have said, the user changes the font size in Windows Display Settings and Windows UI Guidelines state you should leave it alone. Your changes will affect all Windows applications.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

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