Getting system fonts - c++

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to get the font of the following windows font inside the red box.
Is there any way to receive this font as a HFONT via a Win32 API function?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This is done with uxtheme.dll, class AeroWizard, part HeaderArea. Either state 0 or state 1 (NoMargins) will work. Here's a sample, both using DrawThemeText() and manually. (Note that being a demonstration program, it does no error checking.)
// 20 june 2016
#define UNICODE
#define _UNICODE
#define STRICT
#define STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS
#define WINVER 0x0600
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
#define _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0600
#define _WIN32_IE 0x0700
#define NTDDI_VERSION 0x06000000
#include <windows.h>
#include <uxtheme.h>
#include <vsstyle.h>
#include <vssym32.h>
HWND mainwin;
HWND edit;
void redraw(void)
{
HDC dc;
PAINTSTRUCT ps;
WCHAR text[1024];
HTHEME theme;
LOGFONTW lf;
HFONT font, oldfont;
COLORREF color;
SIZE extent;
RECT r;
dc = BeginPaint(mainwin, &ps);
theme = OpenThemeData(mainwin, VSCLASS_AEROWIZARD);
GetThemeFont(theme, dc, AW_HEADERAREA, 0, TMT_FONT, &lf);
font = CreateFontIndirectW(&lf);
GetThemeColor(theme, AW_HEADERAREA, 0, TMT_TEXTCOLOR, &color);
GetWindowTextW(edit, text, 1024);
GetThemeTextExtent(theme, dc, AW_HEADERAREA, 0,
text, -1, 0, NULL, &r);
extent.cx = r.right - r.left;
extent.cy = r.bottom - r.top;
SetWindowPos(edit, NULL,
10, 10, 500, 20,
SWP_NOOWNERZORDER | SWP_NOZORDER);
r.left = 10;
r.top = 40;
r.right = 10 + extent.cx;
r.bottom = r.top + extent.cy;
DrawThemeText(theme, dc, AW_HEADERAREA, 0,
text, -1, 0, 0, &r);
oldfont = (HFONT) SelectObject(dc, font);
color = SetTextColor(dc, color);
r.top = r.bottom + 10;
r.bottom = r.top + extent.cy;
DrawTextW(dc, text, -1, &r, 0);
SetTextColor(dc, color);
SelectObject(dc, oldfont);
DeleteObject(font);
CloseThemeData(theme);
EndPaint(mainwin, &ps);
}
LRESULT CALLBACK wndproc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
switch (uMsg) {
case WM_PAINT:
redraw();
return 0;
case WM_COMMAND:
InvalidateRect(hwnd, NULL, TRUE);
break;
case WM_CLOSE:
PostQuitMessage(0);
break;
}
return DefWindowProcW(hwnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam);
}
int main(void)
{
WNDCLASSW wc;
MSG msg;
ZeroMemory(&wc, sizeof (WNDCLASSW));
wc.lpszClassName = L"mainwin";
wc.lpfnWndProc = wndproc;
wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) (COLOR_BTNFACE + 1);
RegisterClassW(&wc);
mainwin = CreateWindowExW(0,
L"mainwin", L"Main Window",
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
640, 200,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
edit = CreateWindowExW(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
L"EDIT", L"Top is DrawThemeText(), bottom is manual",
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
10, 10, 100, 100,
mainwin, (HMENU) 100, NULL, NULL);
ShowWindow(mainwin, SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
UpdateWindow(mainwin);
while (GetMessageW(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessageW(&msg);
}
return 0;
}