#251 --fontname= doesn't work.

[John Pezzano]

Using --fontname= doesn't appear to work. No change in font size.

Three different thing tried
--fontname="Monospace 16"
--fontname="Monospace Regular 16"
--fontname="Courier 10 Pitch 18" # This was based on the output of yad --font.

Ubuntu 14.04
yad 0.28.1

[Victor Ananjevsky]

what version of gtk+ you use with yad?
and please, illustrate this problem with some screenshots

[John Pezzano]

I probably need to clarify my problem. I am using the --list option and I expected the --fontname to change the size of the data that is being displayed in the list. I did find out that for each list item, I can use the "span" command but it is not only a kluge because the span has to be used for each entry and when an entry is selected, to recover the value, I have to peel off the "span" command from the output I want.

am using gtk2

This is the code I use now for the list:
FileDir=`let Count=1
   while [ $Count -lt ${#line[@]} ]; do
   echo -n "'" ; echo -n '<span color="red" font="20">'${DisplayLine[$Count]}'</span>' ;echo "'"
    Count=$((Count+1))
done | yad --list --timeout=60 --width 500 --height 400  \
     --text '<span color=\"red\" font="16">Pick a topic then\n select "OK"to begin</span>' \
     --column "Topic"  --center --button="gtk-ok:0" \
     -align=center \
     --no-click --limit=10 --timeout-indicator="bottom" |
     sed -e s'/.<span color="red" font="20">//' -e s'/<.span>..//' `

This snippet demonstrates the difference between using --fontname and the span

Winxsize=600
read Xsize Ysize <<<$(xdpyinfo |grep dimensions |sed -e s'/p.*//' -e s'/.*    //' -e s'/x/ /')
Winxpos=$(( $((Xsize / 2 )) - $((Winxsize / 2 )) ))
yad --image=dialog-question --timeout=0 \
--text='<span color=\"red\" font="16">Select "OK" when you are ready to begin</span>' \
  --button="gtk-ok:0"  --undecorated --geometry="${Winxsize}x50+${Winxpos}+0"

yad --image=dialog-question --timeout=0 \
--text='Select "OK" when you are ready to begin' \
--fontname="Courier Bold 20"\
  --button="gtk-ok:0"  --undecorated --geometry="${Winxsize}x50+${Winxpos}+0"

The first yad outputs size 16 font. The second outputs small font

[Victor Ananjevsky]

for --list there are three special types of columns - @fore@, @back@ and @font@ which describes decoration of text in list

for example

yad --list --column=text --column=@fore@ --column=@font@ " big red font" "#FF0000" "Monospace 20" "normal blue font" "blue" ""

[John Pezzano]

So how would that work with this snippet of code? Would I have to put a "red" "monospace 20" before each item?

let Count=1
while [ $Count -lt ${#line[@]} ]; do
echo -n "'" ; echo -n ''${DisplayLine[$Count]}'' ;echo "'" Count=$((Count+1)) done | yad --list --timeout=60 --width 500 --height 400 \ --text 'Pick a topic then\n select "OK"to begin' \ --column "Topic" --center --button="gtk-ok:0" \ -align=center \ --no-click \ --limit=10 --timeout-indicator="bottom"

This didn't work as yad thinks each line is the whole line
let Count=1
while [ $Count -lt ${#line[@]} ]; do
echo -n '"'"red"'"'
echo -n '"'"Monospace 20"'"'
echo '"'${DisplayLine[$Count]}'"'
Count=$((Count+1))
done | yad --list --timeout=60 --width 500 --height 400 \ --text 'Pick a topic then\n select "OK"to begin' \ --column @fore@ --column=@font@ --column=text --center --button="gtk-ok:0" \ -align=center \ --no-click \ --limit=10 --timeout-indicator="bottom"

All I get is an error that it doesn't recognize the whole line
'"red" "Monospace 20" "[my text here]"' as a color

[Victor Ananjevsky]

one string from stdin is one cell in --list

let Count=0
while [ $Count -lt ${#line[@]} ]; do
    echo "red"
    echo "Monospace 20"
    echo "${DisplayLine[$Count]}"
    Count=$((Count+1))
done | yad --list --timeout=60 --width 500 --height 400 \
    --text 'Pick a topic then\n select "OK"to begin' \
    --column @fore@ --column=@font@ --column=text --center --button="gtk-ok:0" \
    --align=center --no-click --limit=10 --timeout-indicator="bottom" 

[John Pezzano]

Victor,

I intentionally skip the "0" (first) item. It was not a mistake.

I'd swear this was the way I started writing the code with the @font@/@fore@ and it did not work. It does now. My error. Thanks. Must have had other mistakes.

I love yad but I wish there were many more examples.

You can close this problem.

[sid-the-sloth]

@v1c0nt That WHILE loop does not work. Must use a FOR loop, such as:

for line in ${RNDLINES[@]}; do
  echo "Roboto Mono 10"
  echo "${line}"
done | yad --list --title="Here are your passwords" --text="\nCopy and paste your fresh password from below:\n" --column=@font@ --column=text --no-escape --no-markup --center --editable --no-click --grid-lines=hor --button=_Close:0 --no-headers --width=360 --height=400