Re: Owner Draw of ComboBox Text & Items

From: Maarten Wiltink (maarten_at_kittensandcats.net)
Date: 11/22/03 

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:15:41 +0100

"J French" <erewhon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3fbf9acf.116770804@news.btclick.com...
> On 22 Nov 2003 16:13:39 GMT, alanglloyd@aol.com (AlanGLLoyd) wrote:
> >In article <3fbf76a7.107513692@news.btclick.com>, erewhon@nowhere.com (J
> >French) writes:

>>> It is probably worth looking at the Windows standard drawing stuff

>> I thought that Marlett was the font that MS used to draw all those
>> standard bits and pieces. That's all the font has in it anyway.

> If MS use Marlett then ... I am a Pekin Duck
> - not a chance - that stuff *has* to be embedded

I offer you as a data point that I don't seem to have Marlett at all...

But while it doesn't seem likely that it was supplied as the source
of all standard UI bits & bobs, it sounds quite plausible that it was
meant as _a_ source of standard UI bits & bobs, and that could come in
mighty handy in certain circumstances.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink

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