/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Name: font
+// Name: font.h
// Purpose: topic overview
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Licence: wxWindows license
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-/*!
+/**
- @page font_overview wxFont overview
+ @page overview_font wxFont Overview
- Class: #wxFont, #wxFontDialog
- A font is an object which determines the appearance of text, primarily
- when drawing text to a window or device context. A font is determined by
- the following parameters (not all of them have to be specified, of course):
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- This is the standard way of referring to text size.
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- Family
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- Supported families are:
- @b wxDEFAULT, wxDECORATIVE, wxROMAN, wxSCRIPT, wxSWISS, wxMODERN.
- @b wxMODERN is a fixed pitch font; the others are either fixed or variable pitch.
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- Style
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- The value can be @b wxNORMAL, wxSLANT or @b wxITALIC.
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+ Class: wxFont, wxFontDialog
+ @li @ref overview_font_intro
+ @li @ref overview_font_nativeinfo
+ <hr>
- The value can be @b wxNORMAL, wxLIGHT or @b wxBOLD.
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- Underlining
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- The value can be @true or @false.
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- Face name
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- An optional string specifying the actual typeface to be used. If @NULL,
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- Encoding
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- The font encoding (see @b wxFONTENCODING_XXX
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+ @section overview_font_intro Introduction
+ A font is an object which determines the appearance of text, primarily
+ when drawing text to a window or device context. A font is determined by
+ the following parameters (not all of them have to be specified, of course):
+ @beginDefList
+ @itemdef{Point size, This is the standard way of referring to text size.}
+ @itemdef{Family,
+ Supported families are:
+ @b wxDEFAULT, @b wxDECORATIVE, @b wxROMAN, @b wxSCRIPT, @b wxSWISS, @b wxMODERN.
+ @b wxMODERN is a fixed pitch font; the others are either fixed or variable pitch.}
+ @itemdef{Style, The value can be @b wxNORMAL, @b wxSLANT or @b wxITALIC.}
+ @itemdef{Weight, The value can be @b wxNORMAL, @b wxLIGHT or @b wxBOLD.}
+ @itemdef{Underlining, The value can be @true or @false.}
+ @itemdef{Face name,
+ An optional string specifying the actual typeface to be used. If @NULL,
+ a default typeface will chosen based on the family.}
+ @itemdef{Encoding,
+ The font encoding (see @b wxFONTENCODING_XXX
+ constants and the @ref overview_fontencoding for more details)}
+ @endDefList
Specifying a family, rather than a specific typeface name, ensures a degree of
portability across platforms because a suitable font will be chosen for the
parameters above don't suffice, in general, to identify all the available fonts
and this is where using the native font descriptions may be helpful - see
below.
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Under Windows, the face name can be one of the installed fonts on the user's
system. Since the choice of fonts differs from system to system, either choose
standard Windows fonts, or if allowing the user to specify a face name, store
the family name with any file that might be transported to a different Windows
machine or other platform.
- @b Note: There is currently a difference between the appearance
- of fonts on the two platforms, if the mapping mode is anything other than
- wxMM_TEXT. Under X, font size is always specified in points. Under MS
- Windows, the unit for text is points but the text is scaled according to the
- current mapping mode. However, user scaling on a device context will also
- scale fonts under both environments.
+ @note There is currently a difference between the appearance
+ of fonts on the two platforms, if the mapping mode is anything other than
+ wxMM_TEXT. Under X, font size is always specified in points. Under MS
+ Windows, the unit for text is points but the text is scaled according to the
+ current mapping mode. However, user scaling on a device context will also
+ scale fonts under both environments.
- @ref nativefontinformation_overview
- @section nativefontinformation Native font information
+ @section overview_font_nativeinfo Native font information
An alternative way of choosing fonts is to use the native font description.
This is the only acceptable solution if the user is allowed to choose the font
- using the #wxFontDialog because the selected font cannot
+ using the wxFontDialog because the selected font cannot
be described using only the family name and so, if only family name is stored
permanently, the user would almost surely see a different font in the program
later.
- Instead, you should store the value returned by
- wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoDesc and pass
- it to wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo later to
- recreate exactly the same font.
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+ Instead, you should store the value returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoDesc and pass
+ it to wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo later to recreate exactly the same font.
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Note that the contents of this string depends on the platform and shouldn't be
used for any other purpose (in particular, it is not meant to be shown to the
user). Also please note that although the native font information is currently
are available for all the ports and should be used to make your program work
correctly when they are implemented later.
- */
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+*/
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