Hello everyone.
What font is used in preferences dialog of fb2k. How to change it? Really I just want monospace (Courier New or Lucida Console) font in edit boxes...
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As far as I know it's Microsoft Sans-Serif and you can't change it, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
QUOTE(Anas @ Jul 8 2005, 12:01 PM)
As far as I know it's Microsoft Sans-Serif and you can't change it, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
I know the way to change system font. And It works for 99% of applications. fb2k seems to be in this one percent. My experience tells me that it's not MS Sans Serif...
It's tahoma:
fb2k is such a hard to use program...
QUOTE(dev0 @ Jul 8 2005, 04:12 PM)
fb2k is such a hard to use program...
Thank you for your help.
MS Paint seems to be hard to use either...
This works only for Title Formating dialog. It seems that foobar2000 directly use Tahoma for everything. Is there any way to change it? I wish the developers will change it to "MS Shell Dlg" as most applications does. So on most systems appearance will remain, and on my system it will look as expected by me 
QUOTE(vir @ Jul 8 2005, 02:54 PM)
This works only for Title Formating dialog. It seems that foobar2000 directly use Tahoma for everything. Is there any way to change it? I wish the developers will change it to "MS Shell Dlg" as most applications does. So on most systems appearance will remain, and on my system it will look as expected by me
That would also make targeting the dialog design more complicated. Dialog templates use points as scale and for positioning, relative to the dialog font. There are a few problems with this that may cause certain elements to overflow the dialog, or even cause the dialog to overflow its parent window.
Basically, assuming default shell font would require developers to preview their dialogs with a broad range of fonts, and some fonts may require fixes that look odd with other fonts. For example, generous spacing between elements, generous sizing of all text elements, generous margin around the dialog, etc. Maybe it is a good practice...
This is in addition to making sure the dialogs work both with and without skins, with normal or large fonts, various DPI settings. Many developers don't even bother with that.
QUOTE(kode54 @ Jul 9 2005, 02:53 AM)
QUOTE(vir @ Jul 8 2005, 02:54 PM)
This works only for Title Formating dialog. It seems that foobar2000 directly use Tahoma for everything. Is there any way to change it? I wish the developers will change it to "MS Shell Dlg" as most applications does. So on most systems appearance will remain, and on my system it will look as expected by me
That would also make targeting the dialog design more complicated. Dialog templates use points as scale and for positioning, relative to the dialog font. There are a few problems with this that may cause certain elements to overflow the dialog, or even cause the dialog to overflow its parent window.
Basically, assuming default shell font would require developers to preview their dialogs with a broad range of fonts, and some fonts may require fixes that look odd with other fonts. For example, generous spacing between elements, generous sizing of all text elements, generous margin around the dialog, etc. Maybe it is a good practice...
This is in addition to making sure the dialogs work both with and without skins, with normal or large fonts, various DPI settings. Many developers don't even bother with that.
I symposize you and other developers. I just like to say that default system font is MS Shell Dlg not Tahoma. Besides there more advanced ways to design dialogs. See wxWindows for example it uses scalable dialogs as I remember...
QUOTE(vir @ Jul 9 2005, 09:10 AM)
I just like to say that default system font is MS Shell Dlg not Tahoma.
In Windows XP, it should be Tahoma.
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