Changing Clarion6 IDE Fonts
Posted on Saturday, December 12th, 2009
The inspiration for this post came from a newsgroup message I read yesterday by JP.
Clarion IDE Fonts & save your eyes ? 17/12/2005 3:44:38 PM
I found that by careful tweaking of the registry values it was possible to alter the fonts used by the Clarion IDE!
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
It’s not quite as straight forward as simply specifying the fonts you want as it seems that not all fonts will be accepted. I have no idea if this is the Clarion IDE or the windows font substitutions fault but I think it is best to take what you can get at this point!
Important Note:
It is required to restart Windows to allow a new or changed font substitution to take effect.
First, lets go straight to the before and after pictures:
And now for a little more detail on just how this works…
For demonstration purposed I have used Segeo Script in all these examples. You will have to play with it and work out what suits your tastes best.
The After pictures employes these techniques:
- Font substitution to change the IDE fonts
- CWPlus with custom ClarionEdge icon set!
- Custom background specified in the C60PE.ini/C60EE.ini file. (I think the one I am using here cam from 1stLogoDesign at some point)
There are three main registry string that we are going to play with:
- MS Shell Dlg
- Helv
- MS Sans Serif
The last one, MS Sans Serif, is a new registry string that you will have to add to make this work.
Helv
This one covers most of the IDE – procedure Tree, template dialogs, etc
New String: MS Sans Serif
File picker, All the other IDE property boxes such as the Populate column toolbox and things like the main IDE Tabs.
Finally: MS Shell Dlg
This one will change all window dialogs, you will notice it a lot more in other places than just the ClarionIDE
e.g.
We wrote a small application to disable “opportunistic locking” in the registry to allow our TPS based applications to run on a 2003 window server. Sounds like this is another idea for an application to simplify the tedious activity of windows registry changes.
Hi Chris, yes that would be handy although I found the most tedious part in this case is all the rebooting
BTW, I since found that making this change seems to have a few side effects. The main one being that the IDE entry controls are incompatible with ClearType and so doing this makes lots of things somewhat unreadable. It is still a fun experiment though.