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All versions: UI Font size

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November 19, 2010
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I need to change the size of a font used in a single StaticTextWidget on several dialogs. Has anyone ever tried such a thing?

I see no example in the code snippets nor can I find any reference to changing fonts except that mentioned in IInterfaceFont.h.

R,

John

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JADarnellAuthor

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Here is the solution that seems to work:

I added several lines looking like this to my project header:

DECLARE_PMID(kUIFontIDSpace, kMyFont11BoldID, kShuksanPrefix + 100) //In ShuksanID the last predefined UI font is 14...

//I thought 100 would be safe.

Then, close to the start of my plugin, I added several lines like this:

ISession *session = GetExecutionContextSession();

InterfacePtr<IInterfaceFonts> interfacefonts(session, UseDefaultIID());

PMLocaleId nLocale = LocaleSetting::GetLocale(); //kInterfaceFontBold
interfacefonts -> SetFont(nLocale, kMyFontBold11ID, PMString("MyFont"), 11, kInterfaceFontBold);

I tested this out by creating several InfoStaticTextWidgets using the newly created fontids and examining the text they output on a dialog. In a couple of instances the bold font seemed bold, but smaller than the plain fonts with the same point size. Optical illusion? Who knows.

Please let me know if anyone has any questions about this.

R,

John

D

D¡rk Becker

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John,

please retry with your own plugin's prefix rather than kShuksanPrefix ...

And could the smaller (in what direction?) appearance of your font, comparing to plain text, be related to the use of a "condensed" variation?

Dirk

JADarnellAuthor

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I will try with my own plugin prefix, but I was afraid of stepping on existing shuksanid defs, which is why I did it the way I did.

To be honest, the Font was Arial, and there are only three attributes one may use, plain, bold and italic. I made sure I used the plain or bold attributes. The PMString I used for font name was simply "Arial."

R,

John

Bartek_Kropaczewski

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Hi John

The easiest way to achive that is creating your own version of StaticTextWidget

type YourInfoStaticTextWidget( kViewRsrcType ) : StaticTextWidget (ClassID = kInfoStaticTextWidgetBoss )

{

UIFontSpec;

};

then you can specify predefined font like kPaletteWindowSystemScriptFontId

Other way is to create View class for your widget

Regards

Bartek

JADarnellAuthor

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Thanks Bartek. This otherwise excellent suggestion will not work. I am required to use some very special fonts in order to keep within our company style guides.

Additionally, I looked up the definition for infostatictextwidget and it already has a UIFONTSPEC. So I should be able to use it, right?

And finally, though your idea cannot work because of the exotic needs of the company, how about this: IInterfaceFont has functionality for adding new fonts to its list. Would it be possible to use that? The algorithm would look something like this:

Algorithm start

Do this as many times as I require special fonts and font sizes.

At plugin startup, make new entry into IInterfaceFont list for AWPCArial Bold Condensed, font size 24 and save the font element into a global list.

In the Initialize function of the dialog, find the InfoStaticTextWidget that requires the special font.

Assign the new uifontspec.

Algorithm end

Is there a function that will allow me to dynamically assign a new uifontspec when I initialize the dialog?

R,

John

Bartek_Kropaczewski

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So other way that you can try is to create View for that widget.

Havn't try that by myself but you can take a look how this was solved in SDK_DIR/source/open/includes/widgets/CStaticTextView.h.

You can control the process of drawing text and background on static text.

Good luck

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