242929 - [ActiveX] Not all native dialogs in MozillaControl.rc use MS Shell Dlg font

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect)

Description

[René Rhéaume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040427
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040427

There are some native dialogs in MozillaControl.rc . Some of them use the old Ms
Sans Serif font, other uses the special MS Shell Dlg fonts, which maps to the
end-user defined font in the Appearance tab of the Display icon in Windows
Control Panel (defaults to Tahoma on Win2k/XP).

This is something that can be done in 5 minutes in VS.net and could improve the
feeling because the font can be selected on user's preference rather than
developer's preference.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
None

Comment 1

[René Rhéaume]

Attachment: Patch replacing MS Sans Serif by MS Shell Dlg

Note that I also set some dialogs to be centered on owner too.

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

I've never heard  of "MS Shell Dlg" font before now. Is this something that is
present in Windows 98/Me/2000?

FYI the dialogs were created using MS DevStudio 98 and I didn't explicitly set
the fonts to a particular family or size.

Comment 3

[timeless]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_4qcn.asp

it dates to at least nt4/95, i think it predates them but i'm not going to do
that archeology today.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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