Modifying Royale VS fonts

Hello everyone,

I would like to change Royale's fonts to Calibri. Can someone tell me how I can modify it? StyleBuilder corrupts the VS upon Compile (probably because it's a Microsoft style and they don't want anyone to edit it)

ResEdit doesn't seem to do anything. I change the fonts, save it and generate an msstyle. I then proceed to overwrite the original Royale.msstyles in my WINDOWS/Resources folder but when I try to apply it, it does not reflect the changes I had made.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

#405727

In the Registry, under

HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFontSubstitutes

Look for MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell Dlg 2. Change the string values within them to Calibri. Then, go into the Advanced appearance properties of the Display control panel, and change all the other fonts there manually. You get your fonts and don't have to modify the VS

NOTE: this is a system-wide change.

#405737

The titlebar and taskbar font cannot be changed this way (in other words the method you have suggested is unacceptable). I already have MS Shell Dlg set to Calibri.

#405741

Then, go into the Advanced appearance properties of the Display control panel, and change all the other fonts there manually.

Remember that little bit? Takes care of the titlebars.

#405744

Have you actually tried that on Royale? Changing the titlebar font to anything other than that specified in the .msstyle causes the titlebar and the window control buttons to shrink (which is once again unacceptable).

Please do your research before posting solutions. I have asked for a solution for a particular VS.

#405755

Have you actually tried that on Royale? Changing the titlebar font to anything other than that specified in the .msstyle causes the titlebar and the window control buttons to shrink (which is once again unacceptable).

Please do your research before posting solutions. I have asked for a solution for a particular VS.

Calm down

what you need to do is make sure that after you've changed the font, that the title bar size setting IN the advanced setting stays the same (25, if I remember).

#405766

Thanks. I did not know that. I guess you do learn something new everday. Sorry for snapping like that (bad mood yesterday).

But that still leaves the problem of the taskbar font. Any ideas?

#405839

Open it up in Resedit and change the font from there.

#405848

^ Doesn't work for Royale. Read my first post.

#405942

Thanks. I did not know that. I guess you do learn something new everday. Sorry for snapping like that (bad mood yesterday).
But that still leaves the problem of the taskbar font. Any ideas?

I would have sworn that worked for the taskbar as well... if I get some free time, I'll try to modify the style for you. You do have patched UXTheme, right?

#405953

No, the taskbar font does not change.

But it's ok, I've sorted out the issue. StyleBuilder 1.0 was not able to save the msstyle properly. I used StyleBuilder 2.0 and it works fine.

ResEdit does not work for Microsoft created styles at all.

Thanks for your help anyway.

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