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[brotherS]

For quite a while http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/InputBox.htm says
"Font - Not yet implemented (leave blank). In the future it might accept something like verdana:8". I'd be happy to see that feature finally implemented. Thanks!
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[Laszlo]

AHK still does not support it, and InputBox most likely will be eliminated. However, setting any fonts should be possible with the WM_SETFONT message (0x0030)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632642.aspx
- wParam: Handle to the font. If this parameter is NULL, the control uses the default system font to draw text.
- lParam: The low-order word of lParam specifies whether the control should be redrawn immediately upon setting the font. If this parameter is TRUE, the control redraws itself.

The dll call to OleCreateFontIndirect should create the font handle
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690144.aspx

The FONTDESC structure contains parameters used to create a font object through the OleCreateFontIndirect function.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms692782.aspx

typedef struct tagFONTDESC
{
UINT cbSizeofstruct;
LPOLESTR lpstrName;
CY cySize;
SHORT sWeight;
SHORT sCharset;
BOOL fItalic;
BOOL fUnderline;
BOOL fStrikethrough;
} FONTDESC;

cbSizeofstruct: Size of the FONTDESC structure.

lpstrName: Pointer to the caller-owned string specifying the font name.

cySize: Initial point size of the font. Use the int64 parameter of the CURRENCY structure and scale your font size (in points) by 10000.

sWeight: Initial weight of the font. If the weight is below 550 (the average of FW_NORMAL, 400, and FW_BOLD, 700), then the Bold property is also initialized to FALSE. If the weight is above 550, the Bold property is set to TRUE.

sCharset: Initial character set of the font.

fItalic: Initial italic state of the font.

fUnderline: Initial underline state of the font.

fStrikethrough: Initial strikethrough state of the font.

[brotherS]

InputBox is on the way out? Why?

DLL calls are far beyond my knowledge, that's why I asked for the font option
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[Chris]

Yes, I think InputBox will be retained in v2 because using GUI instead would be far less convenient. However, it might be revised somewhat for v2, maybe even the font capability if it's easy to implement.

[brotherS]