[Tcl-bugs] [ tktoolkit-Patches-3239768 ] tk8.4.19 (and later) WIN32 menu font support

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Patches item #3239768, was opened at 2011-03-24 07:02
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Category: 13. Win Menus
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: John Wehle (jwehle)
Assigned to: Todd Helfter (tmh)
Summary: tk8.4.19 (and later) WIN32 menu font support

Initial Comment:
Enclosed is a patch which allows tk8.4.19 when built with newer Microsoft
compilers (MSVC 2008)  to correctly get the menu font information.  The
problem is that the size of ncMetrics is larger when using the newer compilers
causing the SystemParametersInfo call to fail on win2k/win2k3/winxp.  This
results in the menu font being ill defined (e.g. Arial 396 which is huge).

Changes:

  1) In SetDefaults adjust the size of ncMetrics when running on older
     operating systems as describe in the remarks section of:

       http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff729175(v=VS.85).aspx

Notes:

  1) It appears from looking at the tk8.5.9 and tk8.6b1 source code that
     the problem is also present in those releases.

  2) This may require work to support older compilers which are missing
     iPaddedBorderWidth.

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Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-03-24 08:21

Message:
Thanks! I will have a look at this

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