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Re: changing font type on a widget [message #63046]

Thu, 23 October 2008 13:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Cindy writes:

> How do I change the font and size of text on a button (or other
> widget)? For example...
>
> myButton = Widget_Button(myBase, value='Test')
>
> How can I change 'Test' to say 'Times' and increase it's size by 2.

On my Windows machine, I would do it like this:

myButton = Widget_Button(myBase, value='Test', font='times*24')

On my Linux machine, I would do it like this:

myButton = Widget_Button(myBase, value='Test', font='-adobe-times-
medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-124-iso8859-1')

> What are the size units?

I've no idea. Font "sizes" are normally expressed as "point sizes".
But as far as I know, these have "meaning" only when you are printing
something with a printing press. I don't think they really have
meaning when you are talking about something on a display. :-)

Cheers,

David

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