Font style of caption/title of CDialog

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I want to change the font style and font size of title/caption of Dialog(Derived from CDialog).Since caption/title is not associated with any resource id so i can't even use SetFont().Tell

https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask I suggest to avoid "urgent", "ASAP", we appreciate more context (is that MFC?) and what you have done so far, what failed what succeeded. — harper, Oct 11 '19 at 10:05
Do skinning of entire dialog (use without system border) , which is pretty easy, by associating with a bitmap. — seccpur, Oct 11 '19 at 10:11
This absolutely NOT easy (see above linked page). Avoid it and refer to Windows standard styling, which is a good reason not to change your dialog's title bar. — Nick, Oct 11 '19 at 12:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 11 '19 at 19:45

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You could make a base class that does this, and then have all your dialog classes derive from this one. As long as you don't change the help id (m_nIDHelp), it should work for base classes. If not, you could add your own member variable to the base class to hold the ID of the dialog.

#include <afxpriv.h>

INT_PTR CModifyDialogDlg::DoModal()
{
   CDialogTemplate templ;
   if (!templ.Load(MAKEINTRESOURCE(m_nIDHelp))) // it could be different, but probably isn't
      return -1;

   templ.SetFont(_T("Comic Sans MS"), 16);

   m_lpszTemplateName = NULL;
   InitModalIndirect(templ.m_hTemplate);
   return __super::DoModal();
}

answered Oct 11 '19 at 19:45

Joseph Willcoxson

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And CModifyDialogDlg must be derived from CDialog ? Right? – sparsh_21j Oct 12 '19 at 08:21
Sorry, but this attempt changes the font for items *inside* the dialog, but not for the caption. – Nick Oct 14 '19 at 08:23
Is derived from CDialog, but possibly CDialogEx.too, or another dialog class derived from either of those two. – Joseph Willcoxson Oct 14 '19 at 14:01

Nick · Answer 2 · 2019-10-14T12:17:02.863

Sorry - I'm failing to format a comment - all hints I found don't work... So I post it as an answer here:

And another note: If you want to change the font for items in the dialog, don't refer to the help id, but to the resource id. Like this:

INT_PTR CModifyDialogDlg::DoModal()
{
    dlgtemplate.Load(m_lpszTemplateName);
    dlgtemplate.SetFont(ms_DefaultFontFace, (WORD)m_LogFontHeight);
    DLGTEMPLATE *pDlgTemplate = (DLGTEMPLATE*)GlobalLock(dlgtemplate.m_hTemplate);
    m_lpszTemplateName = NULL;
    BOOL retVal = InitModalIndirect(pDlgTemplate);
    GlobalUnlock(dlgtemplate.m_hTemplate);
    return __super::DoModal();
}

Font style of caption/title of CDialog

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