On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I saw this asked before but no answer was ever given:
>
> Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running
> MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On
> Windows, probably MS Sans Serif.
>
> It's the Mac interface I particularly need to know. When designing
> custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the
> user's selected system font. Can I get this info?
At present, a good solution to this particluar problem isn't present. On
the Mac you can kludge it by setting the font to a non-existant face name
which will use the large system font. On Windows, you can read the font
from the Registry.
Regards,
Kevin
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