When the Handle of the control of another application is known,
I can get Font object of a win32 control of another application(Different process) by SendMessage(hwnd,WM_GETFONT....) & Graphics class.
But when the target control is a WinForm control(.Net control) of another application, I can't get the HFont from SendMessage(hwnd,WM_GETFONT).
So, I guess the font is not stored in the Device Context(HDC) for a winForm control. Am I Right
Then How Can I get the Font from that winForm control
The purpose to do so is that I want to measure the string size of controls in other applications.
Anyone has idea
How to get font from winform control of another application?
ian field
I assume that you have a handle to a control.(IntPtr)
Control c = Control.FromHandle(handle);
c.Font (when c is the Control)gives you the font object for the control.I mean if you know that the target control is a WinForms control,then you can get the Font by directly querying the property.
Once you have the Font,measuring a string is trivial,if you have access to the Graphics object of the control(Graphics.FromHandle)
g.MeasureString(text,font);
the MeasureString has several overloads which are very useful.
Hope this solves the problem.
ros_amir
Thanks for your help, Karthik Krishnaswami!
This method is the first try I had.
For my program and other application are differen process,
Control c = Control.FromHandle(handle); Will return null.
Anyway, Thanks!
Any other idea