Font Dialog(s)

[David Schwartz 426]

Not sure exactly where this goes, but it's regarding the standard Windows Font Dialog.

 

I dug up some old code that used TFontDialog and when I ran the demo it looks like it's from Windows XP era.

 

When I implemented something similar in my own code, I was a little shocked to see that this ugly-ass dialog is apparently the current Font Dialog in Windows 10!

 

Only when I run Word and other apps that have similar font options, their dialogs are much different.

 

This is the first time I've used a Font Dialog in ages, which is why this seems to strange to me. Hasn't the Windows code for this been updated since 1995 or so?

 

Are there better-looking Font Dialogs anywhere?

[Anders Melander 1782]

It's trivial to implement and then you get it just like you want it.

[Remy Lebeau 1393]

3 hours ago, David Schwartz said:

When I implemented something similar in my own code, I was a little shocked to see that this ugly-ass dialog is apparently the current Font Dialog in Windows 10!

Yup.

3 hours ago, David Schwartz said:

Only when I run Word and other apps that have similar font options, their dialogs are much different.

Microsoft Office is notorious for using its own UIs that are very different from the rest of the OS experience.  Office is like Microsoft's test bed for new UI ideas.  For example, Office used ribbon controls before they were officially integrated into the Win32 API.

3 hours ago, David Schwartz said:

Hasn't the Windows code for this been updated since 1995 or so?

Basically. no.

3 hours ago, David Schwartz said:

Are there better-looking Font Dialogs anywhere?

Not in the standard Win32 API , no.

[David Schwartz 426]

To quote Charley Brown ... oh good grief.