I thought I would brush up on my Win32 API skills, I HATE MFC, and am actually wanting to write a couple of actual applications that don''t use DirectX. (I only know enough of the platform sdk to get me into directx and load bitmaps). Here is the problem, Just for starters I create an overlappedwindow then create a child button. (I know dialogboxes are easier than manually drawing a button, but I am trying to learn as much as possible). I hated the standard font used for the button, so I switch it to MS Sans Serif. Switching the font was easy enough, but I have to set the font every time the os wants to draw the button (WM_CTLCOLORBTN message is sent to the parent window). It seems very inefficient having to tell the OS what font to use every single time (yes I know efficient and windows doesn''t exactly match very well). Is there a way to set the font and just have windows remember, rather than having to create the font handle then select it every single time??? Thanks, Omalacon

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Thanks it worked, forgot there were messages meant for you to send rather than windows. I found out about the WM_CTLCOLORBTN message using spy++. Had no idea of the the WM_SETFONT message. Even went through the help docs trying to find a message dealing with fonts, guess I missed it

-Omalacon