WM_FONTCHANGE message

Applies to: desktop apps only

An application sends the WM_FONTCHANGE message to all top-level windows in the system after changing the pool of font resources.

To send this message, call the SendMessage function with the following parameters.

SendMessage( 
  (HWND)  hWnd,              
  WM_FONTCHANGE,            
  (WPARAM)  wParam,          
  (LPARAM)  lParam            
);

Parameters

This message has no parameters.

Remarks

An application that adds or removes fonts from the system (for example, by using the AddFontResource or RemoveFontResource function) should send this message to all top-level windows.

To send the WM_FONTCHANGE message to all top-level windows, an application can call the SendMessage function with the hwnd parameter set to HWND_BROADCAST.

Requirements

See also

Fonts and Text Overview

Font and Text Messages

AddFontResource

RemoveFontResource

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Build date: 3/7/2012