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    copied!<p>I am working on a Win32 program and want to enable and disable my controls. I am using the Windows XP theme and font. When I disable a STATIC control, the used font appears to be wrong. </p> <p>Enabled controls:<br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/U5FEm.jpg" alt="Correct font"><br> Disabled controls:<br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/A40dq.jpg" alt="Wrong font"></p> <p>In this image it is obvious what I mean:<br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8yBhJ.png" alt="font detail"></p> <p>This code creates the font (I found it using Google):</p> <pre><code>HFONT CreateControlFont( void ) { // Get the system message box font NONCLIENTMETRICS ncm; ncm.cbSize = sizeof(ncm); // If we're compiling with the Vista SDK or later, the NONCLIENTMETRICS struct // will be the wrong size for previous versions, so we need to adjust it. // In versions of Windows prior to Vista, the iPaddedBorderWidth member // is not present, so we need to subtract its size from cbSize. #if( WINVER &lt; 0x0600 ) ncm.cbSize -= sizeof(ncm.iPaddedBorderWidth); #endif SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS, ncm.cbSize, &amp;ncm, 0); return CreateFontIndirect(&amp;(ncm.lfMessageFont)); } </code></pre> <p>I apply it to my controls using <code>SendMessage(MY_WINDOW_HANDLE, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)MY_FONT, MAKELPARAM(FALSE, 0));</code>.</p> <p>I use this code to apply the XP style (also from the internet):</p> <pre><code>#pragma comment(linker, "/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' \ version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' \ language='*'\"") </code></pre> <p>This is how I create the STATIC controls:</p> <pre><code>HWND CreateLabel( const TCHAR * text, int x, int y, int w, int h, HMENU id, HWND parent ) { return CreateWindow( "static", text, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, x, y, w, h, parent, id, hInstance, NULL); } </code></pre> <p>To disable the controls I use <code>EnableWindow(MY_WND_HANDLE, FALSE);</code>.</p> <p>Now as you can see, this works as expected, except for when the control is grayed out. What am I doing wrong?</p>
 

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