What is the font used by Microsoft in their menubars?

[Garrett Hylltun]

Garrett Hylltun wrote:
> Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote:
>> Does anyone know what font is used in Microsoft Windows menubars? Can 
>> I use
>> that font for the menubars in Revolution standalones built for Windows?
> 
> It can vary depending on what theme they use in 95-ME/NT-2k and what 
> Visual Style they use in XP.
> 
> By default in 95 through ME, I believe it was "MS Serif" or "MS Sans 
> Serif".  Default on XP I believe is "Tahoma"
> 
> In ME and XP (Most likely 98/NT/2K also), you can get the Menu font from 
> the registry under the following:
> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics,MenuFont
> 
> It's in binary format so you'll have to convert it to get the text name 
> of the font being used for the menu.  I'm not sure at the moment how to 
> convert that in Rev.
> 
> (Rev can read registry data can't it?)

Answered my own question by checking the docs.  Here's the code you can 
use to get the menu font:

queryRegistry("HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control 
Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MenuFont",varWinMenuFont)

I believe that's how you code it.  varWinMenuFont will hold the data, 
but you will still need to convert that to a string from binary.  The 
Rev docs say to use "binaryDecode" to convert that, so check the docs on 
that to find out how to convert it to a string.

-Garrett