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losingsleeep
losingsleeep

Reputation: 1879

.NET how to change windows default font?

I wanted to change the MessageBox font in my .NET CF application and found that it's not that easy (and even impossible).
some adviced to change the default font of windows , cause MessageBox uses that.
the handy way is : Desktop properties/Appearance/Advanced...
but how can i do that by code using .NET class libraries?
there's a property that gets the system default font for messagebox: 

SystemFonts.MessageBoxFont

but how to set it?
i tried calling SystemParametersInfo() win32 native function in Windows XP and it worked with SPI value SPI_SETNONCLIENTMETRICS.

but in Win CE 5.0 it returns error code 1439 / ERROR_INVALID_SPI_VALUE that means setting some values like font does is not supported.
i googled and just found THIS page that listed the SPIs for Windows CE 3.0 and my SPI to set current default message box is not there.
so how can i change Windows default font for message boxes?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 552

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613461

I doubt that there is a supported way to change this from code. That's a system wide option that the user is in control of. MS likes to avoid tempting developers to change such settings.

Even if there is a way to change the system wide setting from code I urge you not to do so. Instead write your own message box dialog and feel free to use whatever font you like.

Upvotes: 1

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