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Re: Changing font on iPlot legend [message #70032]

Mon, 08 March 2010 15:35

Cliff
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Registered: April 2006

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On 8 Mar, 23:24, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 8, 8:01 pm, Cliff <c.chees...@physics.org> wrote:
>
>> On 8 Mar, 22:22, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Have you used
>
>>> otool->commitactions
>
>>> after you set the properties?
>
>> Yes I have - sorry I didn't mention it.
>
> It works for me, but I noticed that capitalization matters: The font
> name must have only the first letter capitalized. Otherwise, it seems
> that the name is not recognized, and it is reverted to the default
> Helvetica:
>
> IDL> o->setproperty,font_name='SYMBOL'
> IDL> o->getproperty,font_name=fn & print,fn
> Helvetica
> IDL> o->setproperty,font_name='Symbol'
> IDL> o->getproperty,font_name=fn & print,fn
> Symbol
> IDL> o->setproperty,font_name='symbol'
> IDL> o->getproperty,font_name=fn & print,fn
> Helvetica
>
> You can also try putting a !9 inside your string, to change the font
> to Symbol. It also works for me.

Both methods work - Incidently it also worked using
void = oTool->DoSetProperty(ids[i], 'FONT_NAME', 'Symbol')
so that I didn't have to get the object itself.

Thank you very much.

Cliff

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		Re: Changing font on iPlot legend By: Cliff on Mon, 08 March 2010 15:35
		Re: Changing font on iPlot legend By: penteado on Mon, 08 March 2010 15:24
		Re: Changing font on iPlot legend By: Cliff on Mon, 08 March 2010 15:01
		Re: Changing font on iPlot legend By: penteado on Mon, 08 March 2010 14:22

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