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In article <1992Nov16.174241.1@cortex>, mboucher@cortex.prospect.com (Mike Boucher) writes:
|> 1) I have defined a listbox in a dialog resource file, using courier 9 as the
|>   font.  When I GetTextMetrics, I get the information for the system font.
|>   Any ideas why? What do I have to do to get the right font info?

You need to do a GetTextMetrics() with a DC that has a Courier 9 font
selected.  Use CreateFont() to get an appropriate font, SelectObject() to
get it into a DC, and then use GetTextMetrics() to obtain font information.
Be sure and select the original font back and delete the created font.


|> 2) Any ideas on how to get the maximum number of items which would be VISIBLE
|>   in the list box?

Assuming that items in the listbox have a fixed height you can divide the
height of the listbox window by the height of a single item.  The former
is obtained through GetClientRect() with the window handle of the listbox.
The latter can be had by sending the LB_GETITEMHEIGHT message to the
list.



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