How can I specify a font for a window created through CreateWindow?

Question

I\'m creating window using pure Win32 API (RegisterClass and CreateWindow functions). How can I specify a font for the window instead of system defined one?

Answer 1

As vividos said just use CreateFont()/CreateFontIndirect:

HFONT hFont = CreateFont (13, 0, 0, 0, FW_DONTCARE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, ANSI_CHARSET, 
      OUT_TT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, 
      DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE, TEXT("Tahoma"));

And then set this font for your window/control with the WM_SETFONT message:

SendMessage(window, WM_SETFONT, hFont, TRUE);