Default font - IDE and user application

> "Edward" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> > Hi all
> > How would you set a default font for the controls that are part of an
> > application but retain a different default for the IDE. (And I do not
> > want to manually change all the views to have the larger font.)
> >
> > My users want a larger font for their application - but I want to
> > retain the standard default in the IDE.
> >
>
> Since the fonts are inherited along the parent chain, you could just set it
> on the top-level views in the VC. However I usually make the fonts
> configurable in my application (except in dialogs), and then store away the
> font in the registry's current user hive, or in isolated storage. I usually
> apply these font settings from an #applyOptions method I define on the shell
> presenters that I invoke from the #onViewOpened. This idiom is used a little
> in the IDE too.
>
> Regards
>
> Blair