Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] setFont in NSTextField

[Brian M. <ma...@ex...>]

On Jan 3, 2010, at 7:04 AM, sub...@gm... wrote:
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> How do i set the fontfamily/fontname for a NSTextField.
> I tried it in the interfae builder and in my controller_class.rb - with no result. (tried setFont < NSTextField < NSControl - think i didn't get the syntax right)


Another way of writing this in code is like this:

  @comboBox.font = NSFont.fontWithName_size("Helvetica-BoldOblique", 20)

You can replace setFont with Ruby's normal attribute assignment, and the trailing underscore is not (usually) required. You'd usually see a line of code like this in a controller's awakeFromNib method.

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