Fonts question/consistency

[robert_gasch peoplesoft com]

Hi,

I've had some problems with consistent window layout using fonts,
so I figured I'd bounce the problem across this list ...

In my program, I do the following:
     Gtk_Style Style;
     GtkStyle  *style;

     style = Style.gtkobj();
     gdk_font_unref (style->font);
     style->font = gdk_load_font ("-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal-...");
     d_menuBarHandle->push_style (Style);


This all works quite fine, but on my machine at work the dialog layouts
are slightly screwed up. I've traced the code and gdk_load_font ()
seems to return a valid pointer (at least not a NULL pointer), so it seems
that the font is being loaded. However, I could swear that it's still using
a bigger (default) font as the menus look too big and all my widgets
suddently don't fit into my dialogs all of sudden.

Both machines are running 1024x768 display, using Gtk 1.2.3 and Gtk--
1.0.1.

Does anybody have any idea what could be going on here?

Thanks
--> Robert