The following was posted by John Schettino in microsoft.public.windowsce
Someone asked that I repost this info... maybe one of the FAQ maintainers can
add it to their CE FAQs
Also, a good, free registry editor for CE is available at:
http://www.oohito.com/
follow the Palm-sized PC link, then regedit.
Begin repost:
Here's a simple (ok, not so simple) way to customize your PSP/C
1) get a registry editor
2) download and install microsoft's web fonts onto your desktop machine
3) open \Windows\Fonts or \Winnt\Fonts
4) dock your PSPC and open the \Windows\Fonts folder on it
You can now install fonts onto the PSPC... Let's try arial, but of
course you can use others....
5) Drag the Arial true type font to the font folder of the PSPC
6) in the window that appears, select 8,10,12,14, and possibly 16
points (the more you select, the more memory it uses!)
wait while the font downloads...
7) you can now use the font in Note taker, and even set it as the
default.
Interesting, but how about the fonts used by WinCE itself?
Get that registery editor ready and let's change them!
Change the default font: The default font is used for things like the
active desktop, active channels, labels, buttons, and lots of other
things. You can make your PSPC look like a start trek communicator
(use a start trek font) or a Newton (use a casual handwriting font) or
heaven knows what else. You can also change the *SIZE* of the default
font to make it smaller or larger.
*** Warning *** you're using a registry editor. You can really hose
your system if you screw up. Make a full backup. Don't sue me if you
kill your machine. Do this at your own risk.
Change these values
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT\Nm to be the name of the font to
use... I like Arial Bold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT\Ht to be the point size. 10 works
well, as does 8 for the youngsters with good eyes and 12 or even 14
for those of us with mature eyes.
That's it. Reset your PSPC, and you'll notice the change. Cool, eh?
But wait, there's more!
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\BarFnt\Nm is the name of the font
to use for the menu bar... I use plain Arial here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\BarFnt\Ht is the size for the bar
font. I use 14... you don't want to change this to be too large, as
the menu height is fixed.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\PopFnt\Nm is the popup menu font,
again I use Arial
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\PopFnt\Ht is the size for the popup
font. I use 12 here
When you're all done, reset your PSPC again, and hey presto! new fonts
in the OS. Pretty cool.
Note: if you're using RegEdit from Eiichiro, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is "LMachine"
in the upper left pulldown list.
--
John Schettino
CORBA For Dummies, find it at:
http://www.dummies.com/
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