[wx-dev] inheriting window font and colour in wxWindowDC?

[Robin Dunn]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  I have the impression we already discussed this before but I don't
> remember if anything was decided and I can't find anything in the archives
> so I'd like to ask again:
> 
>  Wouldn't it make sense if wxClientDC and wxWindowDC used the font and
> colours of the window automatically? I.e. call SetFont(win->GetFont()),
> SetTextForeground(win->GetForegroundColour()) and SetTextBackground(win->
> GetBackgroundColour()) and SetBackground(wxBrush(win->GetBackgroundColour()))
> when creating them?
> 
>  Doing this is very simple thanks to Robert's changes as creation of
> wxClient/WindowDC objects is now centralized in one place (for all ports).
> And except for possible efficiency considerations I really don't see any
> reason to not do this, IMO it's surprising that this doesn't happen.
> 

Makes sense to me.


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