>I'm trying to display some formatted text in a wait window but the variable width font makes this particularly difficult. According to help the font is taken from the system appearance settings. Would there be any way to change these programmaticly and then restore them when done?
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>Or would it just be easier to create a self sizing window to display a variable length message?

Better go for second suggestion.
You will have more flexibility then.
Also what will happen if your application bombs before you restore system settings?
Grrrr!