Update Text Field after font change (Win32)

Question

After I use setcontrolfont, the text of the text field does not update. The onnly way I fixed this is by removing then readding all text but this seems hackish. How can I do it properly? Thanks

*its a function I made:

void SetControlFont(HWND hand, int size, char* name)
{
    HGDIOBJ hfDefault;
    hfDefault = (HGDIOBJ)CreateFontA(size, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,0,name);
    SendMessage(hand, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hfDefault, MAKELPARAM(FALSE, 0));
}

Answer 1

SendMessage(hand, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hfDefault, MAKELPARAM(FALSE, 0))

The MAKELPARAM(FALSE, 0) is telling the window that it should not redraw itself. Have you tried using MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0) instead?

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If you do not want to change the SetControlFont function, you could tell the text field to redraw itself after calling SetControlFont by calling RedrawWindow.