Re: [wxperl-users] designing an app ~ what's available for saving font settings ~ can I use XRC to do this?

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:35:26 -0800 (PST) DH <cra...@ya...> wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm a writing/designing an app.
> What's available for saving font settings?
> Can I use XRC to do this?
  I have absolutely no idea if XRC can do this (ask wx-users).
However, if you are using wxWindows 2.3.x, you can use
Wx::Font::GetNativeFontInfoDesc and ::SetNativeFontInfo.

> To let the user choose font/color, I dooos a
> 
>     my $fD = Wx::FontDialog->new( $frame,  Wx::FontData->new() );
> 
>     if( $fD->ShowModal() == wxID_OK ) {
>          $fD = $fD->GetFontData();
>          my $c = $fD->GetColour();
>          my $f = $fD->GetChosenFont();
> 
> ## serialize $c and $f here
> ## by hand? ( there's gotta be something written already to do this )
> 
>     }

HTH
Mattia