We have a legacy thick client product with windows forms initially designed using NetAdvantage 2004 Vol2 and NetAdvantage Ultimate 2011 Vol2. On later versions of Windows 10, the font in our results grid appears different from the MS Sans Serif we are accustomed to seeing, and when a cell is selected, WingDings are displayed. We do not explicitly set any specific font. The only thing we ever set font-wise is to either bold and set a font color so it has been a little difficult to step through the control intitialization and see why it is rendering differently. I do not see where the font is being applied or changed during initialization or event handling. This only seems to affect environments running version 1803 (Creator Update) of Windows 10. Older versions of Windows 10 and all versions of Windows 7 are unaffected. I've attempted to update the font in the grid in the Display Layout Appearance section, but it does not make any difference. The grid's font property is set to Microsoft Sans Serif, 8.25pt in Visual Studio properties page. This is happening across the entire thick client, 100's of forms, not just a few few forms.
Is there possibly a default native font defined in Infragistics that is not available in Windows 10 update? Looking at my Surface Tablet which is running the 1703 update of Windows 10, this issue does not appear, and it seems that the same fonts are installed on both machines.
This is what the form looks like the the design view:
This is what it looks like at run time with a cell selected:
Hello David,
The reason for WingDings being shown in results Grid when selecting a cell could be because of the font that’s being used. It might not be having a fallback font and when it can’t find any font, Grid might be showing WingDings. To ensure this is the case you could do a quick test. Use a Label and TextBox on the Form and see if you were able to observe the same behavior. If the WingDings weren’t showed when you do this test then please send us a sample of this issue and we will investigate it further.
I will continue to look into this issue as soon as I hear from you.
Thanks for looking at this Sahaja. The label and text box controls do not display the same behavior. All of the controls, including the ultra grid, have the font name set to Microsoft Sans Serif. But only the grid is displaying a different font at run time. I narrowed down that the font being displayed in the grid is Bahnscrift. Then, when a cell is selected, the highlighted text is wingdings. I would note that we do not use any custom fonts in our application, we just use the fonts that are included with Windows.
I did notice that the grid control also contains a "Display Layout" property that contains nodes for 'Appearance', each of which contains their own font settings. These font settings were not set by default, so I updated them to use Microsoft Sans Serif in 8 pt, but it still displayed the wayward Bahnscrift and wingdings at run time.
I found I am able to work around the issue by clearing the Bahnscrift font value in the registry and creating a font substitute that maps Bahnscrift to Microsoft Sans Serif. But I don't feel this is the correct approach to resolving the issue, I would rather fix the software issue instead of hacking the registry.
I will look at getting a code sample to you, it will take me a bit to get a small sample that reproduces the same issue.