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Re: Widget Fonts
- Subject: Re: Widget Fonts
- From: davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:58:18 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Fanning Software Consulting
- References: <3ABF5C21.EEDD9806@va.aetc.com>
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:24138
Bernard Puc (bpuc@va.aetc.com) writes:
> Is there a way to get the current default widget font? I can define it
> using widget_control, default_font = ***, but I can't seem to determine
> what its set to. What I'd like to be able to do is define say a label
> in a larger size of the default font. Any ideas?
As far as I know, there is no way to get at this
information programmatically. IDL is picking up
system font information. I can change various
fonts by playing with the Appearances/Font
properties on my Windows machine, but so far not
the font that is used for most things in widgets. :-(
Cheers,
David
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