i did these code for try change the menu font, without OWNERDRAW it:

CHOOSEFONT ShowSelectFont()
{
    HWND hwnd=GetForegroundWindow();
    CHOOSEFONT cf = {sizeof(CHOOSEFONT)};
    LOGFONT* lf = new LOGFONT;
    HDC hdc=GetDC(hwnd);

    HFONT hlf =(HFONT) GetCurrentObject(hdc,OBJ_FONT);
    GetObject(hlf,sizeof(LOGFONT),lf);
    cf.Flags = CF_EFFECTS | CF_INITTOLOGFONTSTRUCT | CF_SCREENFONTS;
    cf.hwndOwner = hwnd;
    cf.lpLogFont = lf;
    cf.rgbColors =GetTextColor(hdc);
    ChooseFont(&cf);
    ReleaseDC(hwnd,hdc);
    cf.lpLogFont = lf;
    return cf;
}

//.......
CHOOSEFONT cf={0};
NONCLIENTMETRICS theMetrics;

cf=ShowSelectFont();//font dialog
            theMetrics.cbSize = sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS);

            SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS,sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS),
                            (PVOID) &theMetrics,0);
            blnFirst=true;
            theMetrics.lfMenuFont=*cf.lpLogFont;
            SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETNONCLIENTMETRICS,sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS),
                            (PVOID) &theMetrics,0);

the menu font is changed, but SystemParametersInfo() it's the system font(it's changed for all windows menu bar, all aplications.

can anyone advice me more?

i need just change on the window(HWND) and not all windows

i'm trying it without sucess :(

on my form class i have:

void setFont(HFONT font)
        {
            if(SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM) font, TRUE)!=WM_SETFONT)
                MessageBox(NULL, to_string(GetLastError()).c_str(), "error: font not chnaged", MB_OK);
        }

now see how i use it:

CHOOSEFONT ChFont={0};
ChFont=ShowSelectFont();
fb.setFont(CreateFontIndirect(ChFont.lpLogFont));//fb it's my form class object

the message box, on setFont, it's showed with zero. so no error? strange.

what i'm doing wrong?

if(SendMessage(...) != WM_SETFONT)

i'm trying testing if the SendMessage() is done sucess... without errors. but the window font isn't changed :(

yes. for change the font, i must do:

1 - on control creation(if realy works);

2 - when we draw the controls.