usbview.exe chooses invalid font

The DDK includes sources for program usbview.exe. The DDK's build command
builds an executable which targets some versions of the Win32 environment.
The usbview program attempts to display a number of character strings. The
contents of the character strings come from the Windows operating system as
installed. But the usbview program neglects to use Windows APIs
appropriately to choose fonts that can display the contents. As shown in a
screenshot, usbview.exe chose two fonts, one lucky and one unlucky.

Microsoft has some employees who could advise the authors of usbview (and
perhaps other authors of DDK components) how to do better than this.

Screenshot at
http://www.geocities.jp/hitotsubishi/usbview.png

heinz
Wed Jul 06 04:44:34 CDT 2005

They should fix that, but you do have the source code to modify if
desired. Alternatively, this free util will dump even more USB device
info and uses proper fonts:

http://www.perisoft.net/bushound

martinbo
Thu Jul 07 18:33:33 CDT 2005

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Norman,

This information has been forwarded to the USB dev group.

Thanks,
Martin Borve [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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\par Thanks,
\par Martin Borve [MSFT]
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