System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog not picking up the font family correctly.

Shivani Sabnis 1

I am using System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog for showing font styling popup in my WPF application.
I selected @Ms Gothic font, but that dialog returning MS Gothic font.
And this behavior is similar for all the font families which includes "@" in their name.

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Hui Liu-MSFT 48,571 Microsoft Vendor

Hi, @Shivani Sabnis . Welcome Microsoft Q&A.
I am using the following code for testing System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog in WPF which has no @ symbol. What is your VisualStudio version and TargetFramework? Could you show a minimal example code that can reproduce the problem?

  <StackPanel  x:Name="sp1">  
            <Button  Content="click" x:Name="btn" Width="100" Height="50" Click="btn_Click"/>  
        </StackPanel>  

public partial class MainWindow : Window  
    {  
        System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog fd=new System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog();  
        System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tb;  
        public MainWindow()  
        {  
            InitializeComponent();  
            WindowsFormsHost host = new WindowsFormsHost();  
            host.Height = 200;  
             tb = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();  
  
            tb.Text="Mahesh Chand";  
  
            host.Child = tb;  
  
            this.sp1.Children.Add(host);  
  
        }  
        
  
        private void btn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)  
        {  
  
            fd.Font = tb.Font;  
            fd.Color = tb.ForeColor;  
  
            if (fd.ShowDialog() != System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel)  
            {  
                tb.Font = fd.Font;  
                tb.ForeColor = fd.Color;  
            }  
        }  
    }

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Hui Liu-MSFT 48,571 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-12-22T08:00:20.577+00:00

Hi, @Shivani Sabnis . Is there any update to the question?

1 answer

Viorel 118.1K Reputation points

2022-12-14T20:28:58.067+00:00
If you really need the "@" prefix, then try this:

string n = ( fd.Font.GdiVerticalFont ? "@" : "" ) + fd.Font.FontFamily.Name; m_model.FontFamilyName = n;
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