WB or SKS issue/bug ?

Font won't change

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When change font in SKS for Bar Item/ Pull Down Item, does not change for Favorites or Quick Launch drop down/up menus. It seems to now be set at Windows default. Text color will change for these menus. WB 4.51 Build 204, SKS free 4.5.1 Build 1034. A couple updates back for WB these menus had large text if no font was set for menus, is this a fix for that, now stuck with no ability to change font for these menus.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was able to match the PullDown Item font by setting the same font as the Menu Font in Fonts for Classic Widgets in the Miscellaneous section. Just be sure to use a negative number for the font height (don't know why, just know it won't work as a positive number per SD). I went ahead and set the colors for the font there, too, to match the colors in the PullDown Item and that worked without a hitch.

It's probably a good idea to also set the same font settings for "Controls/Menus/Bar items - toolbar like" as you are using for the PullDown Item.

Here's a potentially useful link with some other obscure tips: Link

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Daiwa, that is a work around for now, but pull down item did use to control font on Favorites and Quick launch
I have emailed Stardock support, just waiting for an answer from them. Really don't want to have to add fonts for
classic widgets to the 90 WB's currently in my WB folder.
Font did work not being negative except for messing up FireFox menu bar font and no menu background.
Since -13 is larger than 13 did have to change pull down item to negative as well.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Hence the need to use the negative number - there are other apps besides FF which don't behave well if you use positive numbers. As for the other 89 skins, that is a pain, but some of these things just weren't known by skinners at the time they were published.

I don't know if this would work, since I haven't tried it, but if you can go with the same font for everything skinned, you might try setting a global override in WBConfig, User overrides, Font overrides & see if that also catches to Favorites menu text.

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
For menus and menu/toolbars I change font to Tahoma as soon as download a skin I like enough to keep. But as long as
not too funky I will stay with font type of skin for Titlebar and Taskbar. Setting font override would change all to
Tahoma and if skin is using a heavier font would have to use SkinStudio to edit font sizes. I spent at least 1/2 hour editing any new skin, having to add fonts for classic widgets until issue is corrected is no big deal. Until I
hear from Stardock support I am not going to edit skins I already have.
Thanks for your input Daiwa.