Font in a toolbar

It was only today that I realised that fancy VB menu (well, it's as fancy as
menus get) is not a menu at all, it's a toolbar. I'd been wanting to add a
spanking new and fancier menu to my app (with the must-have Tahoma font) for
a while, so I went straight to the Components window and add all those Microsoft
OCXs. Then I added a toolbar to my form, and scrolled down to the Font
property. The problem is that there wasn't one.

Ermmm?

Any answers?

All I want to do is add a few buttons (File, Help etc.) in TAHOMA. Is that, literally, too much to ask?

Any help, in any shape, would be dearly appreciated by me and my imaginary friend
Bob.

=/ i'm not sure you can change the fort of a toolbar because..what would the font be for...i think that when you add other controls to the toolbar then you can set then font of those control (ie.label).
Hope that helped,
D!m

You can try using this method to change the Fonts of Menu's. I got this piece of code and tried to simplify it as much as possible. Once you get the basic idea, you can improve it by a lot.

Make a Form with a Menu (with SubMenu's), and put the following code into a CommandButton.

Code:

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Private Declare Function CreateCompatibleBitmap Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal nWidth As Long, ByVal nHeight As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateCompatibleDC Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDC As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateFont Lib "gdi32" Alias "CreateFontA" (ByVal H As Long, ByVal W As Long, ByVal E As Long, ByVal O As Long, ByVal W As Long, ByVal i As Long, ByVal u As Long, ByVal S As Long, ByVal C As Long, ByVal OP As Long, ByVal CP As Long, ByVal Q As Long, ByVal PAF As Long, ByVal F As String) As Long
Private Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetMenuItemCount Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetMenuItemID Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ModifyMenu Lib "user32" Alias "ModifyMenuA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPosition As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long, ByVal wIDNewItem As Long, ByVal lpString As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function Rectangle Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SelectObject Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function TextOut Lib "gdi32" Alias "TextOutA" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal nCount As Long) As Long
Const MF_BITMAP = &H4&
Const MF_STRING = &H0&

Private Sub Command1_Click()

        'Declare our Variables
        Dim hID As Long
        Dim hMenu As Long
        Dim hSubMenu As Long
        Dim hDC As Long
        Dim hFont As Long
        Dim hBmp As Long
        Dim lh()
        'The the DC and hWnd of the form and Menu's
        hMenu = GetMenu(Form1.hwnd)
        hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(hMenu, 0)
        hDC = CreateCompatibleDC(Me.hDC)
        'Get the number of SubMenus
        iCount = GetMenuItemCount(hSubMenu)
        ReDim lh(iCount)
       
        'Loop through the SubMenus
        For i = 0 To GetMenuItemCount(hSubMenu)
           
            hID = GetMenuItemID(hSubMenu, i)
            'Create the Font
            hFont = CreateFont(-16, 0, 0, 0, 400, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, Me.FontName)
            lh(i) = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hDC, 200, 18)
            hBmp = SelectObject(hDC, lh(i))
           
            SelectObject hDC, hFont
            Rectangle hDC, -1, -1, 201, 19
            'Set the Menu Text
            TextOut hDC, 0, 0, "SubMenu" & i, 8
            'Make the modifications
            ModifyMenu hSubMenu, hID, MF_BITMAP, hID, lh(i)

        Next i
       
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()

    'Change the FontName here
    Me.FontName = "Courier"
   
End Sub

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Dim:

Thanks, but I'd already tried that approach, but no luck.

Megatron:

I'd seen that code posted in the API forum, and I tried it. The menu was good,
but it looks a bit strange because the menu is Tahoma, but the 'main' button
(eg File) is still the same font (MS Sans Serif I'd assume)
Otherwise, I would have used it.

I'm still open for suggestions until I go and make a 4000 line control which I've just been revising for.

(4000 is a rough guess and to show off a little)

BTW has anybody made a control like it?

I've been doing my groundwork for it (DrawEdge, TextOut, CreateFont, etc) and it looks like it's going to be a bugger.

It really feels like I'm starting from scratch. I mean, I've got to subclass EVERY-*******-THING.

Surely there's got to be a way?

Any help/Prozac greatly appreciated.

Spank you.