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AfxMessageBox

Hi,

I have a CString called HELLO.
CString say temp = HELLO.
I want to make this string to APPEAR As a BOLD and ITALIC STRING in the AfxMessageBox?

How can I do this?

Syntax is: AfxMessageBox(temp);

Thanks

jhattingh

You can't do that.

If you're going to do it a lot in future, write a class that will allow this. Otherwise, I'm afraind you're going to have to implement a simple dialog box that appears to be exactly the same as the system dlg box, with extended functionality, using possibly a rich edit control.

Regards,

Jason

gurukg102498

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Hi Jason
Could you be more elaborate on this.I know there is no direct way to do that.But how will I implement this.Pls let me know.

narcotic030200

Yes i agree with Jason, in order change the font (bold/italic) of the original MessageBox you'd have to subclass it or write your own.

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Meir Rivkin

what u wanna do is derive from CDialog and make your own message box class.

add data member CFont m_fontSpecial.

and in OnInitDialog() add the following:
LOGFONT lfNew;

ZeroMemory (&lfNew, sizeof(LOGFONT));
lfNew.lfHeight = 18;

lfNew.lfItalic = TRUE;
lfNew.lfWeight = FW_BOLD;

strcpy (lfNew.lfFaceName, "Book Antiqua"); //or any other font
m_fontSpecial.CreateFontIndirect(&lfNew);

now use GetDlgItem() and SetFont() to change the font to some control, for example if u have message box and the text is displayed by using CStatic do like this:

GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC)->SetFont(&m_fontSpecial, TRUE)

if u need a sample app post your e-mail address.

cheers

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