Font question

[fabien]

Hi!

When I launch my Tcl app on my Sun I get some rather small fonts for the labels buttons menus etc.

How can I set a larger font that applies to all widgets? I could set the fonts using the -font option for each of them but it is painful.


Thanks,

 

[smugindividual]

Heres what i have done to solve this problem. I created a default file. It looks something like this(only a portion of my real file):

*Label.background: #7DB7BB
*Label.foreground: black
*Label.font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

*Entry.background: #7DB7BB
*Entry.foreground: black
*Entry.font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

*Text.background: white
*Text.foreground: black
*Text.font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso8859-1

*Listbox.selectmode: extended
*Listbox.background: white
*Listbox.foreground: black
*Listbox.font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

Then at the top level of the program i have the line:

option readfile $PATH/Environment

Where PATH is the directory of the default file, and Environment is the name of the default file.
Theres nothing special about this file, no funky headers, just follow the format. And, if you still desire a different font, any fonts you declare in the code will take presedence over the fonts defined in your default file.

hope this helps, i wasnt able to find a link for you, sorry

 

[fabien]

Thanks this helps. I tried changing your font to bold instead of normal but the font appeared even smaller, why? Also how to you force it to be black?

THanks!

 

[smugindividual]

No clue why the bold is making your font smaller. But to change the color of the font you need to set the foreground option

 

[smugindividual]

Have you tried using the fixed font yet?

-font fixed

 

[fabien]

Yes it works, but if I have to change all the labels and buttons which is a pain..

Also I noticed that with all the additional options in the begining the app does not come up straight away now is it normal?

 

[fabien]

I found the solution, if I use
option add *font -adobe-helvetica-b*-r*-*--14-*-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1

Then I get a bold font.

Thanks