+#if !wxUSE_UNICODE
+ // Text labels starting with the character 0xff (which is a valid character
+ // in many code pages) don't appear correctly as CreateWindowEx() has some
+ // special treatment for this case, apparently the strings starting with -1
+ // are not really strings but something called "ordinals". There is no
+ // documentation about it but the fact is that the label gets mangled or
+ // not displayed at all if we don't do this, see #9572.
+ //
+ // Notice that 0xffff is not a valid Unicode character so the problem
+ // doesn't arise in Unicode build.
+ if ( !label.empty() && label[0] == -1 )
+ ::SetWindowText(GetHwnd(), label.t_str());
+#endif // !wxUSE_UNICODE
+
+ // saving the label in m_labelOrig to return it verbatim
+ // later in GetLabel()
+ m_labelOrig = label;
+
+ // install wxWidgets window proc for this window
+ SubclassWin(m_hWnd);
+
+ // set up fonts and colours
+ InheritAttributes();
+ if ( !m_hasFont )
+ {
+ bool setFont = true;
+
+ wxFont font = GetDefaultAttributes().font;
+
+ // if we set a font for {list,tree}ctrls and the font size is changed in
+ // the display properties then the font size for these controls doesn't
+ // automatically adjust when they receive WM_SETTINGCHANGE
+
+ // FIXME: replace the dynamic casts with virtual function calls!!
+#if wxUSE_LISTCTRL || wxUSE_TREECTRL
+ bool testFont = false;
+#if wxUSE_LISTCTRL
+ if ( wxDynamicCastThis(wxListCtrl) )
+ testFont = true;
+#endif // wxUSE_LISTCTRL
+#if wxUSE_TREECTRL
+ if ( wxDynamicCastThis(wxTreeCtrl) )
+ testFont = true;
+#endif // wxUSE_TREECTRL
+
+ if ( testFont )
+ {
+ // not sure if we need to explicitly set the font here for Win95/NT4
+ // but we definitely can't do it for any newer version
+ // see wxGetCCDefaultFont() in src/msw/settings.cpp for explanation
+ // of why this test works
+
+ // TODO: test Win95/NT4 to see if this is needed or breaks the
+ // font resizing as it does on newer versions
+ if ( font != wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT) )
+ {
+ setFont = false;
+ }
+ }
+#endif // wxUSE_LISTCTRL || wxUSE_TREECTRL
+
+ if ( setFont )
+ {
+ SetFont(GetDefaultAttributes().font);
+ }
+ }