Re: win32: use ms default fonts for menus and such... need a pango expert

[Ulf Lamping <ulf lamping web de>]

Evan Martin wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:00PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm interested, using the default win32 fonts for all menus and such, as 
> > this will look much more familiar to win32 users, than the GTK defaults.
> >
> > Allin Cottrell has written code to do exactly this, see:
> >
> > http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/gtk_win32/#winfont
> >
> > The code works fine in it's GTK1 version, but the GTK2 version fails (at 
> > least on my Win XP machine),
> > although Allin reported that it works on his systems (Win 98 and XP) ok.
> >    
>
> This probably belongs in your GTK theme, not in your application.  I
> know I tried to do something like this when I was writing gtk-nativewin
> (now part of gtk-wimp: http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/).  Looking at
> their screenshots, it appears they actually may use Windows fonts
> already. 
>
>  
That's looking great, not only the fonts!

Thanks very much for your tip :-)))

Regards, ULFL