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1\section{\class{wxFont}}\label{wxfont}
2
3A font is an object which determines the appearance of text. Fonts are
4used for drawing text to a device context, and setting the appearance of
5a window's text.
6
7\wxheading{Derived from}
8
9\helpref{wxGDIObject}{wxgdiobject}\\
10\helpref{wxObject}{wxobject}
11
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12\wxheading{Include files}
13
14<wx/font.h>
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16\wxheading{Constants}
17
18\begin{verbatim}
19enum wxFontEncoding
20{
21 wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM = -1, // system default
22 wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT, // current default encoding
23
24 // ISO8859 standard defines a number of single-byte charsets
25 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1, // West European (Latin1)
26 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_2, // Central and East European (Latin2)
27 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_3, // Esperanto (Latin3)
28 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_4, // Baltic (old) (Latin4)
29 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_5, // Cyrillic
30 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_6, // Arabic
31 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_7, // Greek
32 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_8, // Hebrew
33 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_9, // Turkish (Latin5)
34 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_10, // Variation of Latin4 (Latin6)
35 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_11, // Thai
36 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_12, // doesn't exist currently, but put it
37 // here anyhow to make all ISO8859
38 // consecutive numbers
39 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_13, // Baltic (Latin7)
40 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_14, // Latin8
41 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_15, // Latin9 (a.k.a. Latin0, includes euro)
42 wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_MAX,
43
44 // Cyrillic charset soup (see http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html)
45 wxFONTENCODING_KOI8, // we don't support any of KOI8 variants
46 wxFONTENCODING_ALTERNATIVE, // same as MS-DOS CP866
47 wxFONTENCODING_BULGARIAN, // used under Linux in Bulgaria
48
49 // what would we do without Microsoft? They have their own encodings
50 // for DOS
51 wxFONTENCODING_CP437, // original MS-DOS codepage
52 wxFONTENCODING_CP850, // CP437 merged with Latin1
53 wxFONTENCODING_CP852, // CP437 merged with Latin2
54 wxFONTENCODING_CP855, // another cyrillic encoding
55 wxFONTENCODING_CP866, // and another one
56 // and for Windows
57 wxFONTENCODING_CP874, // WinThai
58 wxFONTENCODING_CP1250, // WinLatin2
59 wxFONTENCODING_CP1251, // WinCyrillic
60 wxFONTENCODING_CP1252, // WinLatin1
61 wxFONTENCODING_CP1253, // WinGreek (8859-7)
62 wxFONTENCODING_CP1254, // WinTurkish
63 wxFONTENCODING_CP1255, // WinHebrew
64 wxFONTENCODING_CP1256, // WinArabic
65 wxFONTENCODING_CP1257, // WinBaltic (same as Latin 7)
66 wxFONTENCODING_CP12_MAX,
67
68 wxFONTENCODING_UTF7, // UTF-7 Unicode encoding
69 wxFONTENCODING_UTF8, // UTF-8 Unicode encoding
70
71 wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE, // Unicode - currently used only by
72 // wxEncodingConverter class
73
74 wxFONTENCODING_MAX
75};
76\end{verbatim}
77
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78\wxheading{Predefined objects}
79
80Objects:
81
82{\bf wxNullFont}
83
84Pointers:
85
86{\bf wxNORMAL\_FONT\\
87wxSMALL\_FONT\\
88wxITALIC\_FONT\\
89wxSWISS\_FONT}
90
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91\wxheading{See also}
92
93\helpref{wxFont overview}{wxfontoverview}, \helpref{wxDC::SetFont}{wxdcsetfont},\rtfsp
94\helpref{wxDC::DrawText}{wxdcdrawtext}, \helpref{wxDC::GetTextExtent}{wxdcgettextextent},\rtfsp
95\helpref{wxFontDialog}{wxfontdialog}
96
97\latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}}
98
99\membersection{wxFont::wxFont}\label{wxfontconstr}
100
101\func{}{wxFont}{\void}
102
103Default constructor.
104
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106 \param{const bool}{ underline = FALSE}, \param{const wxString\& }{faceName = ""},
107 \param{wxFontEncoding }{encoding = wxFONTENCODING\_DEFAULT}}
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109Creates a font object (see \helpref{font encoding
110overview}{wxfontencodingoverview} for the meaning of the last parameter).
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111
112\wxheading{Parameters}
113
114\docparam{pointSize}{Size in points.}
115
116\docparam{family}{Font family, a generic way of referring to fonts without specifying actual facename. One of:
117
118\twocolwidtha{5cm}
119\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
120\twocolitem{{\bf wxDEFAULT}}{Chooses a default font.}
121\twocolitem{{\bf wxDECORATIVE}}{A decorative font.}
122\twocolitem{{\bf wxROMAN}}{A formal, serif font.}
123\twocolitem{{\bf wxSCRIPT}}{A handwriting font.}
124\twocolitem{{\bf wxSWISS}}{A sans-serif font.}
125\twocolitem{{\bf wxMODERN}}{A fixed pitch font.}
126\end{twocollist}}
127
128\docparam{style}{One of {\bf wxNORMAL}, {\bf wxSLANT} and {\bf wxITALIC}.}
129
130\docparam{weight}{One of {\bf wxNORMAL}, {\bf wxLIGHT} and {\bf wxBOLD}.}
131
132\docparam{underline}{The value can be TRUE or FALSE. At present this has an effect on Windows only.}
133
134\docparam{faceName}{An optional string specifying the actual typeface to be used. If the empty string,
135a default typeface will chosen based on the family.}
136
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137\docparam{encoding}{An encoding which may be one of
138\twocolwidtha{5cm}
139\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
140\twocolitem{{\bf wxFONTENCODING\_SYSTEM}}{Default system encoding.}
141\twocolitem{{\bf wxFONTENCODING\_DEFAULT}}{Default application encoding: this
142is the encoding set by calls to
88b1927c 143\helpref{SetDefaultEncoding}{wxfontsetdefaultencoding} and which may be set to,
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144say, KOI8 to create all fonts by default with KOI8 encoding. Initially, the
145default application encoding is the same as default system encoding.}
146\twocolitem{{\bf wxFONTENCODING\_ISO8859\_1...15}}{ISO8859 encodings.}
147\twocolitem{{\bf wxFONTENCODING\_KOI8}}{The standard russian encoding for Internet.}
148\twocolitem{{\bf wxFONTENCODING\_CP1250...1252}}{Windows encodings similar to ISO8859 (but not identical).}
149\end{twocollist}
150If the specified encoding isn't available, no font is created.
151}
152
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153\wxheading{Remarks}
154
155If the desired font does not exist, the closest match will be chosen.
156Under Windows, only scaleable TrueType fonts are used.
157
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158See also \helpref{wxDC::SetFont}{wxdcsetfont}, \helpref{wxDC::DrawText}{wxdcdrawtext}
159and \helpref{wxDC::GetTextExtent}{wxdcgettextextent}.
160
161\membersection{wxFont::\destruct{wxFont}}
162
163\func{}{\destruct{wxFont}}{\void}
164
165Destructor.
166
167\wxheading{Remarks}
168
169The destructor may not delete the underlying font object of the native windowing
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171
172Although all remaining fonts are deleted when the application exits,
173the application should try to clean up all fonts itself. This is because
174wxWindows cannot know if a pointer to the font object is stored in an
175application data structure, and there is a risk of double deletion.
176
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177\membersection{wxFont::IsFixedWidth}\label{wxfontisfixedwidth}
178
179\constfunc{bool}{IsFixedWidth}{\void}
180
181Returns {\tt TRUE} if the font is a fixed width (or monospaced) font,
182{\tt FALSE} if it is a proportional one or font is invalid.
183
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184\membersection{wxFont::GetDefaultEncoding}\label{wxfontgetdefaultencoding}
185
186\func{static wxFontEncoding}{GetDefaultEncoding}{\void}
187
188Returns the current applications default encoding.
189
190\wxheading{See also}
191
192\helpref{Font encoding overview}{wxfontencodingoverview},
193\helpref{SetDefaultEncoding}{wxfontsetdefaultencoding}
194
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195\membersection{wxFont::GetFaceName}\label{wxfontgetfacename}
196
197\constfunc{wxString}{GetFaceName}{\void}
198
199Returns the typeface name associated with the font, or the empty string if there is no
200typeface information.
201
202\wxheading{See also}
203
204\helpref{wxFont::SetFaceName}{wxfontsetfacename}
205
206\membersection{wxFont::GetFamily}\label{wxfontgetfamily}
207
208\constfunc{int}{GetFamily}{\void}
209
210Gets the font family. See \helpref{wxFont::wxFont}{wxfontconstr} for a list of valid
211family identifiers.
212
213\wxheading{See also}
214
215\helpref{wxFont::SetFamily}{wxfontsetfamily}
216
dccb75b6 217\membersection{wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoDesc}\label{wxfontgetnativefontinfodesc}
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dccb75b6 219\constfunc{wxString}{GetNativeFontInfoDesc}{\void}
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221Returns the platform-dependent string completely describing this font or an
222empty string if the font wasn't constructed using the native font description.
223
224\wxheading{See also}
225
226\helpref{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}
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227
228\membersection{wxFont::GetPointSize}\label{wxfontgetpointsize}
229
230\constfunc{int}{GetPointSize}{\void}
231
232Gets the point size.
233
234\wxheading{See also}
235
236\helpref{wxFont::SetPointSize}{wxfontsetpointsize}
237
238\membersection{wxFont::GetStyle}\label{wxfontgetstyle}
239
240\constfunc{int}{GetStyle}{\void}
241
242Gets the font style. See \helpref{wxFont::wxFont}{wxfontconstr} for a list of valid
243styles.
244
245\wxheading{See also}
246
247\helpref{wxFont::SetStyle}{wxfontsetstyle}
248
249\membersection{wxFont::GetUnderlined}\label{wxfontgetunderlined}
250
251\constfunc{bool}{GetUnderlined}{\void}
252
253Returns TRUE if the font is underlined, FALSE otherwise.
254
255\wxheading{See also}
256
257\helpref{wxFont::SetUnderlined}{wxfontsetunderlined}
258
259\membersection{wxFont::GetWeight}\label{wxfontgetweight}
260
261\constfunc{int}{GetWeight}{\void}
262
263Gets the font weight. See \helpref{wxFont::wxFont}{wxfontconstr} for a list of valid
264weight identifiers.
265
266\wxheading{See also}
267
268\helpref{wxFont::SetWeight}{wxfontsetweight}
269
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270\membersection{wxFont::SetDefaultEncoding}\label{wxfontsetdefaultencoding}
271
272\func{static void}{SetDefaultEncoding}{\param{wxFontEncoding }{encoding}}
273
274Sets the default font encoding.
275
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276\wxheading{See also}
277
278\helpref{Font encoding overview}{wxfontencodingoverview},
279\helpref{GetDefaultEncoding}{wxfontgetdefaultencoding}
280
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281\membersection{wxFont::SetFaceName}\label{wxfontsetfacename}
282
283\func{void}{SetFaceName}{\param{const wxString\& }{faceName}}
284
285Sets the facename for the font.
286
287\wxheading{Parameters}
288
289\docparam{faceName}{A valid facename, which should be on the end-user's system.}
290
291\wxheading{Remarks}
292
293To avoid portability problems, don't rely on a specific face, but specify the font family
294instead or as well. A suitable font will be found on the end-user's system. If both the
295family and the facename are specified, wxWindows will first search for the specific face,
296and then for a font belonging to the same family.
297
298\wxheading{See also}
299
300\helpref{wxFont::GetFaceName}{wxfontgetfacename}, \helpref{wxFont::SetFamily}{wxfontsetfamily}
301
302\membersection{wxFont::SetFamily}\label{wxfontsetfamily}
303
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306Sets the font family.
307
308\wxheading{Parameters}
309
310\docparam{family}{One of:
311
312\twocolwidtha{5cm}
313\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
314\twocolitem{{\bf wxDEFAULT}}{Chooses a default font.}
315\twocolitem{{\bf wxDECORATIVE}}{A decorative font.}
316\twocolitem{{\bf wxROMAN}}{A formal, serif font.}
317\twocolitem{{\bf wxSCRIPT}}{A handwriting font.}
318\twocolitem{{\bf wxSWISS}}{A sans-serif font.}
319\twocolitem{{\bf wxMODERN}}{A fixed pitch font.}
320\end{twocollist}}
321
322\wxheading{See also}
323
324\helpref{wxFont::GetFamily}{wxfontgetfamily}, \helpref{wxFont::SetFaceName}{wxfontsetfacename}
325
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326\membersection{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}\label{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}
327
328\func{void}{SetNativeFontInfo}{\param{const wxString\& }{info}}
329
330Creates the font corresponding to the given native font description string
331which must have been previously returned by
332\helpref{GetNativeFontInfoDesc}{wxfontgetnativefontinfodesc}. If the string is
333invalid, font is unchanged.
334
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335\membersection{wxFont::SetPointSize}\label{wxfontsetpointsize}
336
eaaa6a06 337\func{void}{SetPointSize}{\param{int}{ pointSize}}
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338
339Sets the point size.
340
341\wxheading{Parameters}
342
343\docparam{pointSize}{Size in points.}
344
345\wxheading{See also}
346
347\helpref{wxFont::GetPointSize}{wxfontgetpointsize}
348
349\membersection{wxFont::SetStyle}\label{wxfontsetstyle}
350
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353Sets the font style.
354
355\wxheading{Parameters}
356
357\docparam{style}{One of {\bf wxNORMAL}, {\bf wxSLANT} and {\bf wxITALIC}.}
358
359\wxheading{See also}
360
361\helpref{wxFont::GetStyle}{wxfontgetstyle}
362
363\membersection{wxFont::SetUnderlined}\label{wxfontsetunderlined}
364
365\func{void}{SetUnderlined}{\param{const bool}{ underlined}}
366
367Sets underlining.
368
369\wxheading{Parameters}
370
371\docparam{underlining}{TRUE to underline, FALSE otherwise.}
372
373\wxheading{See also}
374
375\helpref{wxFont::GetUnderlined}{wxfontgetunderlined}
376
377\membersection{wxFont::SetWeight}\label{wxfontsetweight}
378
eaaa6a06 379\func{void}{SetWeight}{\param{int}{ weight}}
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381Sets the font weight.
382
383\wxheading{Parameters}
384
385\docparam{weight}{One of {\bf wxNORMAL}, {\bf wxLIGHT} and {\bf wxBOLD}.}
386
387\wxheading{See also}
388
389\helpref{wxFont::GetWeight}{wxfontgetweight}
390
391\membersection{wxFont::operator $=$}\label{wxfontassignment}
392
393\func{wxFont\&}{operator $=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
394
395Assignment operator, using reference counting. Returns a reference
396to `this'.
397
398\membersection{wxFont::operator $==$}\label{wxfontequals}
399
400\func{bool}{operator $==$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
401
402Equality operator. Two fonts are equal if they contain pointers
403to the same underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute,
404so two indefontdently-created fonts using the same parameters will
405fail the test.
406
407\membersection{wxFont::operator $!=$}\label{wxfontnotequals}
408
409\func{bool}{operator $!=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
410
411Inequality operator. Two fonts are not equal if they contain pointers
412to different underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute.
413
414