How to set default font for all the windows in a Win32 Application?

Question

I want all the controls (edit,list control, etc) in my application to be having the same font which is not the system default. How do i do this? Is there any Win32 API that sets the application default font?

Answer 1

Implement this:

    bool CALLBACK SetFont(HWND child, LPARAM font){
        SendMessage(child, WM_SETFONT, font, true);
        return true;
    }

inside a separate file or just in the main.cpp and then just run:

EnumChildWindows(hwnd, (WNDENUMPROC)SetFont, (LPARAM)GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT));

whenever you want, for example in the WM_CREATE message, after you've created all your child windows!

I always have a SetFont.cpp and a SetFont.h in my win32 GUI application solutions.