[Pythoncard-users] fonts - day three

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

dialog.py, test_dialogs.py, and widget.py have been updated in cvs to use
the new Font class. This is highly experimental, but doesn't appear to break
any existing samples.

I chose to combine and hide some of the wxPython font settings. A Font is
described by its optional attributes:
  family:   'serif', 'sansSerif', 'monospace', 'default'
  faceName: an actual font name from the system (Arial, Courier New...)
  size:     a number representing point size (8, 9, 10, etc.)
  style:    'regular', 'bold', 'italic', 'boldItalic'
  underline is currently turned off

If None is passed in to initialize the Font class then you currently get a
Font with an empty faceName, a default family, 8 point, and 'regular' style.
If a faceName is present, it overrides the family attribute. If you specify
a faceName then you risk that font not being available on a different
system. You should only use 'faceName' right now for cross-platform
compatibility.

You can provide a 'font' attribute in the .rsrc.py files for a widget such
as:

'font':{'family':'monospace', 'size':12}
'font':{'faceName':'Garamond', 'size':10, 'style':'boldItalic'}

or you can set the font while the program is running.

f = PythonCardPrototype.widget.Font({'family':'monospace', 'size':12})
self.field1.font = f

I need to work on some mechanism, so that a list of alternative fonts can be
searched for in order such as ["Garamond, Times New Roman, Times"] in order
to make a match. I also need to provide a set of named fonts. Finally, I
need to change the Font class initialization, so that the defaults aren't
hard-coded, by using GetFont() on the background panel (Panel class) prior
to initializing any of the widgets.

ka