How to create a bold and italic label in MFC?

Answer 1

You will want to do the following before the static text control is shown on the parent window.

1. Get a handle to the window: CWnd * pwnd = GetDlgItem(IDC_LABEL);
2. Get the current font for the static text: CFont * pfont = pwnd->GetFont();
3. Get the characteristics of the font: LOGFONT lf; pfont->GetLogFont(&lf);
4. Change the lfWeight and lfItalic fields in lf.
5. Put a CFont object in your parent window, so it will exist for the entire lifetime of the child window.
6. Initialize the CFont: m_font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
7. Set the font into the static text window: pwnd->SetFont(&m_font);