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:

1. MS Shell Dlg
2. Helv
3. 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.