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A CExtButton, child of a CExtControlBar, does not display its text as bold until it has been clicked once. (Then it stays bold forever thereafter.) How can I make the button text to be displayed initially bold, so that there is no changing from normal to bold when it is clicked the first time.

Thanks!

-- Mark

Would you tell us how you set the button font?

The text is supplied to the CExtButton in its Create() function:

CString strButton = "Add";
rExtButton.Create(strButton, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_PUSHBUTTON , CRect(0,0,0,0), this, nCtlID);

Cheers
-- Mark

We asked you to show how you set the button font, not text. Anyway, recently we found a bug in the CExtButton class that may cause the problem with the bold font. Please find the following lines in the ExtButton.cpp file:

_lf.lfWeight =

            ( m_nButtonType == BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON )

                        ? FW_BOLD

                        : FW_NORMAL;

And replace them with the following

if( m_nButtonType == BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON )

            _lf.lfWeight = 

                        (_lf.lfWeight > FW_BOLD) 

                                    ? _lf.lfWeight 

                                    : FW_BOLD;

Now you can set a custom font and the weight attribute will not be reset to FW_NORMAL.

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