class wxFont : public wxGDIObject
{
public:
- //@{
/**
Default ctor.
*/
Creates a font object with the specified attributes.
@param pointSize
- Size in points.
+ 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.
@param style
- One of wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
+ One of @c wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, @c wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and @c wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
@param weight
- Font weight, sometimes also referred to as font boldness. One of
- the ::wxFontWeight enumeration values.
+ Font weight, sometimes also referred to as font boldness.
+ One of the ::wxFontWeight enumeration values.
@param underline
The value can be @true or @false.
At present this has an effect on Windows and Motif 2.x only.
An encoding which may be one of the enumeration values of ::wxFontEncoding.
Briefly these can be summed up as:
<TABLE>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM</TD><TD>Default system encoding.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT</TD><TD>
- Default application encoding: this
- is the encoding set by calls to
- SetDefaultEncoding and which may be set to,
- say, KOI8 to create all fonts by default with KOI8 encoding. Initially, the
- default application encoding is the same as default system encoding.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1...15</TD><TD>ISO8859 encodings.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_KOI8</TD><TD>The standard Russian encoding for Internet.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_CP1250...1252</TD><TD>Windows encodings similar to ISO8859 (but not identical).</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM</TD><TD>Default system encoding.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT</TD><TD>
+ Default application encoding: this is the encoding set by calls to
+ SetDefaultEncoding() and which may be set to, say, KOI8 to create all
+ fonts by default with KOI8 encoding. Initially, the default application
+ encoding is the same as default system encoding.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1...15</TD><TD>ISO8859 encodings.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_KOI8</TD><TD>The standard Russian encoding for Internet.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_CP1250...1252</TD><TD>Windows encodings similar to ISO8859 (but not identical).</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
If the specified encoding isn't available, no font is created
- (see also font encoding overview).
+ (see also @ref overview_fontencoding).
@remarks If the desired font does not exist, the closest match will be
chosen. Under Windows, only scalable TrueType fonts are used.
Creates a font object with the specified attributes.
@param pixelSize
- Size in pixels: this is directly supported only under MSW currently
- where this constructor can be used directly, under other platforms a
- font with the closest size to the given one is found using binary search
- and the static New method must be used.
+ 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.
@param style
- One of wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
+ One of @c wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, @c wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT and @c wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.
@param weight
Font weight, sometimes also referred to as font boldness.
One of the ::wxFontWeight enumeration values.
An encoding which may be one of the enumeration values of ::wxFontEncoding.
Briefly these can be summed up as:
<TABLE>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM</TD><TD>Default system encoding.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT</TD><TD>
- Default application encoding: this
- is the encoding set by calls to
- SetDefaultEncoding and which may be set to,
- say, KOI8 to create all fonts by default with KOI8 encoding. Initially, the
- default application encoding is the same as default system encoding.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1...15</TD><TD>ISO8859 encodings.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_KOI8</TD><TD>The standard Russian encoding for Internet.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>wxFONTENCODING_CP1250...1252</TD><TD>Windows encodings similar to ISO8859 (but not identical).</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM</TD><TD>Default system encoding.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT</TD><TD>
+ Default application encoding: this is the encoding set by calls to
+ SetDefaultEncoding() and which may be set to, say, KOI8 to create all
+ fonts by default with KOI8 encoding. Initially, the default application
+ encoding is the same as default system encoding.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1...15</TD><TD>ISO8859 encodings.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_KOI8</TD><TD>The standard Russian encoding for Internet.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD>@c wxFONTENCODING_CP1250...1252</TD><TD>Windows encodings similar to ISO8859 (but not identical).</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
If the specified encoding isn't available, no font is created
- (see also font encoding overview).
+ (see also @ref overview_fontencoding).
@remarks If the desired font does not exist, the closest match will be
chosen. Under Windows, only scalable TrueType fonts are used.
bool underline = false,
const wxString& faceName = wxEmptyString,
wxFontEncoding encoding = wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT);
- //@}
/**
Destructor.
virtual int GetPointSize() const;
/**
- Gets the font style. See wxFontStyle for a list of valid styles.
+ Gets the pixel size.
+
+ Note that under wxMSW if you passed to SetPixelSize() (or to the ctor)
+ a wxSize object with a null width value, you'll get a null width in
+ the returned object.
+
+ @see SetPixelSize()
+ */
+ virtual wxSize GetPixelSize() const;
+
+ /**
+ Gets the font style. See ::wxFontStyle for a list of valid styles.
@see SetStyle()
*/
virtual bool GetUnderlined() const;
/**
- Gets the font weight. See wxFontWeight for a list of valid weight identifiers.
+ Gets the font weight. See ::wxFontWeight for a list of valid weight identifiers.
@see SetWeight()
*/
//@{
/**
- These functions take the same parameters as
- @ref wxFont::wxFont "wxFont constructors" and return a new font
+ This function takes the same parameters as the relative
+ @ref wxFont::wxFont "wxFont constructor" and returns a new font
object allocated on the heap.
-
- Using @c New() is currently the only way to directly create a font with
- the given size in pixels on platforms other than wxMSW.
*/
static wxFont* New(int pointSize, wxFontFamily family, wxFontStyle style,
wxFontWeight weight,
@beginTable
@hdr3col{platform, generic syntax, example}
- @row3col{wxGTK2, @c [FACE-NAME] [bold] [oblique|italic] [POINTSIZE], Monospace bold 10}
- @row3col{wxMSW, @c [light|bold] [italic] [FACE-NAME] [POINTSIZE] [ENCODING], Tahoma 10 WINDOWS-1252}
+ @row3col{wxGTK2, <tt>[FACE-NAME] [bold] [oblique|italic] [POINTSIZE]</tt>, Monospace bold 10}
+ @row3col{wxMSW, <tt>[light|bold] [italic] [FACE-NAME] [POINTSIZE] [ENCODING]</tt>, Tahoma 10 WINDOWS-1252}
@endTable
@todo add an example for wxMac
/**
Sets the point size.
+
+ The <em>point size</em> is defined as 1/72 of the anglo-Saxon inch
+ (25.4 mm): it is approximately 0.0139 inch or 352.8 um.
@param pointSize
Size in points.
*/
virtual void SetPointSize(int pointSize);
+ /**
+ Sets the pixel size.
+
+ The height parameter of @a pixelSize must be positive while the width
+ parameter may also be zero (to indicate that you're not interested in the
+ width of the characters: a suitable width will be chosen for best rendering).
+
+ This feature (specifying the font pixel size) is directly supported only
+ under wxMSW and wxGTK currently; under other platforms a font with the
+ closest size to the given one is found using binary search (this maybe slower).
+
+ @see GetPixelSize()
+ */
+ virtual void SetPixelSize(const wxSize& pixelSize);
+
/**
Sets the font style.
/**
Equivalent to wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT).
+
+ @see wxSystemSettings
*/
wxFont wxNORMAL_FONT;
/**
- A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS family and 2 points smaller than
+ A font using the @c wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS family and 2 points smaller than
::wxNORMAL_FONT.
*/
wxFont wxSMALL_FONT;
/**
- A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN family and wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC style and
+ A font using the @c wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN family and @c wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC style and
of the same size of ::wxNORMAL_FONT.
*/
wxFont wxITALIC_FONT;
/**
A font identic to ::wxNORMAL_FONT except for the family used which is
- wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS.
+ @c wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS.
*/
wxFont wxSWISS_FONT;