Change Pane Vertical font ?

Hi, How to change the vertical font of DockPane ?




I tried the similar method from this post by overriding RefreshMetrics() of CXTPTabPaintManager
and set this paintmanager as dockingpane's tabpaintmanager but it didnt helped me ?

Thanks Oleg,

void CXTPTabPaintManager::SetFontIndirect(LOGFONT* pLogFont, BOOL bUseStandardFont /*= FALSE*/)
{
 
...
...

    STRCPY_S(pLogFont->lfFaceName, LF_FACESIZE, CXTPDrawHelpers::GetVerticalFontName(FALSE));
    pLogFont->lfOrientation = 900;
    pLogFont->lfEscapement = 2700;
    pLogFont->lfHeight = pLogFont->lfHeight < 0 ? __min(-11, pLogFont->lfHeight) : pLogFont->lfHeight;
    pLogFont->lfWeight = m_bBoldNormal ? FW_BOLD : FW_NORMAL;
    VERIFY(m_fntVerticalNormal.CreateFontIndirect(pLogFont));

    pLogFont->lfWeight = FW_BOLD;
    VERIFY(m_fntVerticalBold.CreateFontIndirect(pLogFont));
}

CXTPTabPaintManager gets the vertical font from CXTPDrawHelpers ? So i used the following code in my app

void MyTabPaintManager::RefreshMetrics()
{
    CXTPTabPaintManager::RefreshMetrics();

    LOGFONT lf1,lf2,lf3,lf4;

    m_fntNormal.GetLogFont(&lf1);
    m_fntBold.GetLogFont(&lf2);
    m_fntVerticalNormal.GetLogFont(&lf3);
    m_fntVerticalBold.GetLogFont(&lf4);

    _tcscpy(lf1.lfFaceName,_T("MY FONT"));
    _tcscpy(lf2.lfFaceName,_T("MY FONT"));
    _tcscpy(lf3.lfFaceName,_T("MY FONT"));
    _tcscpy(lf4.lfFaceName,_T("MY FONT"));

    m_fntNormal.DeleteObject();  
    m_fntBold.DeleteObject();  
    m_fntVerticalNormal.DeleteObject();  
    m_fntVerticalBold.DeleteObject();  

    m_fntNormal.CreateFontIndirect(&lf1);
    m_fntBold.CreateFontIndirect(&lf2);
    m_fntVerticalNormal.CreateFontIndirect(&lf3);
    m_fntVerticalBold.CreateFontIndirect(&lf4);
}

m_paneManager.SetTheme(xtpPaneThemeOffice2003);   
m_paneManager.GetPaintManager()->SetPanelPaintManager(new MyTabPaintManager());

When i post the question i didnt get the Vertical font because i accidentally set the theme for panemanager after changing the TabPaintManager :( 
Now i am able to get the Vertical font but Office 2003 theme is not working for Tabs ?

Now theme is working for tabs. Hearty Thanks Oleg ,

Is getting Vertical font from CXTPDrawHelpers is the intended behaviour for XT ?

Whoop! All we need is change the font. So i posted a Feature request here.

Hi Oleg,

Our fonts works without problem in Win98. But I am confused about How can i make XT to use my font for Vertical text in a simple straight forward way rather than overiding theme(every one of them ) to change the font.

oleg wrote: Sorry, there no global manages for fonts :(

In future, if Codejock consider my request it will be very helpful for us. (may help other customers as well)

I XT and Thanks Oleg for your support