Static Text Control Font Size

[Davidtheo]

Hi,

Can some one please tell me a easy way to make these to static text label controls in MFC, MS Visual Studio have a larger text font.

I would like.

IDC_Words to have a font size of 70.
IDC_Answer to have a font size of 50.

I have tried GetDlgItem(IDC_Word)->SetWindowTextW(); and IDC_Answer::FONTSIZE(50); but both do not work.

Thanks

[Eóin]

I believe you would have to create your own font object and load it into the control. All I can offer is WTL based code, but the MFC equivilent may not differ all that much.

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1. CFont font_fixedw_;
2.  
3. ...
4.  
5. if (CFont font = GetFont())
6. {
7.         CLogFont lf;           
8.  
9.         if (font.GetLogFont(&lf))
10.         {
11.                 lf.lfWidth = 6;
12.                 lf.lfPitchAndFamily = FIXED_PITCH;
13.                 lf.lfFaceName[0] = 0;
14.                 font_fixedw_.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
15.         }
16. }
17.  
18. CWindow wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_DESCRIPTION);
19. wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_);

Hope it is of some help.

[Davidtheo]

Hi

If I change your code to this I only get one error, which I am not sure on how to fix.

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1. CFont font_fixedw_;
2. .
3. .
4. .
5. LOGFONT lf;
6. lf.lfWidth = 6;
7. lf.lfPitchAndFamily = FIXED_PITCH;
8. lf.lfFaceName[0] = 0;
9. font_fixedw_.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
10.        
11. CWnd *wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
12. wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_); //Error Error C2228: left of '.SetFont' must have class/struct/union

[Eóin]

From your code I'd guess the last line should be wndControl->SetFont(font_fixedw_); as wndControl is declared as a CWnd pointer. But as I say, I'd guess

[Davidtheo]

Hi,

I have tried these two lines in different ways including the ways below.

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1. CWnd *wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
2. wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_);
3.  
4. CWnd wndControl = new CWind;
5. wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
6. wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_);
7.  
8. CWnd wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
9. wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_);
10.  
11. CWnd *wndControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
12. wndControl->SetFont(font_fixedw_);

All of them seem to give me a error. Not sure what to do now.

[Eóin]

I don't really know with MFC but you probably have to Attach the CWnd class you're creating to the existing Dialog control. Honestly though I'm not sure.

[Davidtheo]

Hi,

I got it to build. I did it by adding a control variable called C_word to the Static text control and the removing the following two lines and adding this one.

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1. //CWnd *wndControl  = GetDlgItem(IDC_Word);
2. //wndControl.SetFont(font_fixedw_,TRUE);
3.  
4. C_Word.SetFont(&font_fixedw_);

However are text does not seem to get bigger.
I will keep playing with it.

Thanks for your Help.

[Davidtheo]

Hi Again

Just to let you know I did it in three lines of code.

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1. CFont *m_Word = new CFont;
2. m_Word->CreatePointFont(600, _T("Arial") );
3. C_Word.SetFont(m_Word); //C_Word is a control variable for the Static text control

I thought there is a easy way to do it just did not know how, Thanks again for your help.

[tez93]

I was trying to work out how to do this myself recently and came up with another method as Visual Studio didn't seem to want to let me create a control variable for a static text control within a dialog.

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1. CFont* g_hFont = NULL;
2.  
3. ...
4.  
5. case WM_INITDIALOG:
6. {
7.         if (g_hFont)
8.         {
9.                 delete g_hFont;
10.                 g_hFont = NULL;
11.         }
12.  
13.         g_hFont = new CFont;
14.         g_hFont->CreatePointFont(140, _T("Verdana"));
15.         CWnd::FromHandle(GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_STATIC_NAME))->SetFont(g_hFont, TRUE);
16.  
17.         return (INT_PTR)TRUE;
18. }
19.  
20. ...