/**
- Standard font families: these may be used only for the font creation, it
- doesn't make sense to query an existing font for its font family as,
- especially if the font had been created from a native font description, it
- may be unknown.
+ Standard font families: these are used mainly during wxFont creation to specify
+ the generic properties of the font without hardcoding in the sources a specific
+ face name.
+
+ wxFontFamily thus allows to group the font face names of fonts with similar
+ properties. Most wxWidgets ports use lists of fonts for each font family
+ inspired by the data taken from http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family.
*/
enum wxFontFamily
{
wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT = wxDEFAULT, //!< Chooses a default font.
+
wxFONTFAMILY_DECORATIVE = wxDECORATIVE, //!< A decorative font.
wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN = wxROMAN, //!< A formal, serif font.
wxFONTFAMILY_SCRIPT = wxSCRIPT, //!< A handwriting font.
wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS = wxSWISS, //!< A sans-serif font.
- wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN = wxMODERN, //!< A fixed pitch font.
- wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE = wxTELETYPE, //!< A teletype font.
- wxFONTFAMILY_MAX,
- wxFONTFAMILY_UNKNOWN = wxFONTFAMILY_MAX
+
+ /// A fixed pitch font. Note that wxFont currently does not make distinctions
+ /// between @c wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN and @c wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE.
+ wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN = wxMODERN,
+
+ /// A teletype (i.e. monospaced) font.
+ /// Monospace fonts have a fixed width like typewriters and often have strong angular
+ /// or block serifs. Monospace font faces are often used code samples and have a simple,
+ /// functional font style.
+ /// See also wxFont::IsFixedWidth() for an easy way to test for monospace property.
+ wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE = wxTELETYPE,
+
+ /// Returned by wxFont::GetFamily() when the face name of the font cannot
+ /// be classified into one of the previous wxFontFamily values.
+ wxFONTFAMILY_UNKNOWN = wxFONTFAMILY_MAX,
+
+ wxFONTFAMILY_MAX
};
/**
@param pointSize
Size in points. See SetPointSize() for more info.
@param family
- Font family, a generic way of referring to fonts without specifying actual
- facename. One of the ::wxFontFamily enumeration values.
+ The font family: a generic portable way of referring to fonts without specifying a
+ facename. This parameter must be one of the ::wxFontFamily enumeration values.
+ If the @a faceName argument is provided, then it overrides the font family.
@param style
One of @c wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, @c wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and @c wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
@param weight
The value can be @true or @false.
At present this has an effect on Windows and Motif 2.x only.
@param faceName
- An optional string specifying the actual typeface to be used.
- If it is an empty string, a default typeface will be chosen based on the family.
+ An optional string specifying the face name to be used.
+ If it is an empty string, a default face name will be chosen based on the family.
@param encoding
An encoding which may be one of the enumeration values of ::wxFontEncoding.
Briefly these can be summed up as:
@param pixelSize
Size in pixels. See SetPixelSize() for more info.
@param family
- Font family, a generic way of referring to fonts without specifying actual
- facename. One of ::wxFontFamily enumeration values.
+ The font family: a generic portable way of referring to fonts without specifying a
+ facename. This parameter must be one of the ::wxFontFamily enumeration values.
+ If the @a faceName argument is provided, then it overrides the font family.
@param style
One of @c wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, @c wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and @c wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
@param weight
The value can be @true or @false.
At present this has an effect on Windows and Motif 2.x only.
@param faceName
- An optional string specifying the actual typeface to be used.
- If it is an empty string, a default typeface will be chosen based on the family.
+ An optional string specifying the face name to be used.
+ If it is an empty string, a default face name will be chosen based on the family.
@param encoding
An encoding which may be one of the enumeration values of ::wxFontEncoding.
Briefly these can be summed up as:
const wxString& faceName = wxEmptyString,
wxFontEncoding encoding = wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT);
+ /**
+ Constructor from font description string.
+
+ This constructor uses SetNativeFontInfo() to initialize the font.
+ If @a fontdesc is invalid the font remains uninitialized, i.e. its IsOk() method
+ will return @false.
+ */
+ wxFont(const wxString& fontdesc);
+
/**
Destructor.
static wxFontEncoding GetDefaultEncoding();
/**
- Returns the typeface name associated with the font, or the empty string if
- there is no typeface information.
+ Returns the face name associated with the font, or the empty string if
+ there is no face information.
@see SetFaceName()
*/
virtual wxString GetFaceName() const;
/**
- Gets the font family. See SetFamily() for a list of valid
- family identifiers.
+ Gets the font family.
+ As described in ::wxFontFamily docs the returned value acts as a rough,
+ basic classification of the main font properties (look, spacing).
+
+ If the current font face name is not recognized by wxFont or by the
+ underlying system, @c wxFONTFAMILY_UNKNOWN is returned.
@see SetFamily()
*/
Note that the returned string is not meant to be shown or edited by the user: a
typical use of this function is for serializing in string-form a wxFont object.
- @see SetNativeFontInfo(),GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc()
+ @see SetNativeFontInfo(), GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc()
*/
wxString GetNativeFontInfoDesc() const;
/**
Returns a user-friendly string for this font object.
Returned string is always non-empty.
+
+ The string does not encode all wxFont infos under all platforms;
+ e.g. under wxMSW the font family is not present in the returned string.
Some examples of the formats of returned strings (which are platform-dependent)
are in SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc().
- @see GetNativeFontInfoDesc()
+ @see SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc(), GetNativeFontInfoDesc()
*/
wxString GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc() const;
/**
Returns @true if the font is a fixed width (or monospaced) font,
@false if it is a proportional one or font is invalid.
+
+ Note that this function under some platforms is different than just testing
+ for the font family being equal to @c wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE because native
+ platform-specific functions are used for the check (resulting in a more
+ accurate return value).
*/
virtual bool IsFixedWidth() const;
A valid facename, which should be on the end-user's system.
@remarks To avoid portability problems, don't rely on a specific face,
- but specify the font family instead or as well.
+ but specify the font family instead or as well (see ::wxFontFamily).
A suitable font will be found on the end-user's system.
- If both the family and the facename are specified,
- wxWidgets will first search for the specific face, and
- then for a font belonging to the same family.
+ If both the family and the facename are specified, wxWidgets will
+ first search for the specific face, and then for a font belonging
+ to the same family.
@see GetFaceName(), SetFamily()
*/
For more detailed information about the allowed syntaxes you can look at the
documentation of the native API used for font-rendering
(e.g. @c pango_font_description_from_string on GTK).
+
+ Note that unlike SetNativeFontInfo(), this function doesn't always restore all
+ attributes of the wxFont object under all platforms; e.g. on wxMSW the font family
+ is not restored (because GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc doesn't return it on wxMSW).
+ If you want to serialize/deserialize a font in string form, you should use
+ GetNativeFontInfoDesc() and SetNativeFontInfo() instead.
@see SetNativeFontInfo()
*/
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