hildon.FontSelectionDialog

hildon.FontSelectionDialog

A widget is used to select a font with certain properties

Description

Font selection dialog provides the user with the possiblity to choose a different font family, font size, font color, font weight (bold or not bold), font style (italic or not italic), underline, strikethrough, and position (normal, superscript or subscript).

Usage Example

import gtk
import hildon

def font_selected(widget, label, fontDialog):
    fontDialog.run()
    fontDialog.hide()
    
    if fontDialog.get_property("family-set"):
        family = fontDialog.get_property("family")
    else:
        family = "Not set"
      
    if fontDialog.get_property("size-set"):
        size = fontDialog.get_property("size")
    else:
        size = "Not set"
        
    if fontDialog.get_property("color-set"):
        gdk_color = fontDialog.get_property("color")
        color = "(R:%s, G:%s, B:%s)" % (gdk_color.red, gdk_color.green, gdk_color.blue)
    else:
        color = "Not set"
        
    if fontDialog.get_property("bold-set"):
        bold = fontDialog.get_property("bold")
    else:
        bold = "Not set"
        
    if fontDialog.get_property("italic-set"):
        italic = fontDialog.get_property("italic")
    else:
        italic = "Not set"
        
    if fontDialog.get_property("underline-set"):
        underline = fontDialog.get_property("underline")
    else:
        underline = "Not set"
    
    if fontDialog.get_property("strikethrough-set"):
        strikethrough = fontDialog.get_property("strikethrough")
    else:
        strikethrough = "Not set"
        
    if fontDialog.get_property("position-set"):
        position = fontDialog.get_property("position")
    else:
        position = "Not set"
      
    label.set_text("Family: %s | Size: %s | Color: %s\n"
                   "Bold: %s | Italic: %s | Underline: %s\n"
                   "Sstrikethrough: %s | Position: %s" %
        (family, size, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, position))

window = hildon.Window()
window.set_title("Test App")

label = gtk.Label("No font selected.")

fontDialog = hildon.FontSelectionDialog(window, "Choose a font...")
fontDialog.set_preview_text ("The lazy dogs caught the quick brown fox.")

button = gtk.Button("Click to select a font")
button.connect("clicked", font_selected, label, fontDialog)

vbox = gtk.VBox(False, 10)
vbox.pack_start (button)
vbox.pack_start (label)
window.add(vbox)

window.show_all()

gtk.main()

Properties

Name Access Description
"family" Read/Write String that defines the font family.
"family-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the family property is inconsistent.
"size" Read/Write Font size in Pt (points, typographical unit).
"size-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the size property is inconsistent.
"color" Read/Write gdk color for the text.
"color-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the color property is inconsistent.
"bold" Read/Write Whether the text is bold.
"bold-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the bold is inconsistent.
"italic" Read/Write Whether the text is italic.
"italic-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the italic is inconsistent.
"underline" Read/Write Whether the text is underlined.
"underline-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the underline is inconsistent.
"strikethrough" Read/Write Whether the text is strikethroughed.
"strikethrough-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the strikethrough is inconsistent.
"position" Read/Write Font position (regular, super or subscript).
"position-set" Read/Write/Construct Whether the position is inconsistent.
"preview-text" Read/Write The text in preview dialog, which does not include the "Reference: " text. eg: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Constructor

Creates a new font selection dialog.

hildon.FontSelectionDialog(parent, title)
parent The parent window.
title (optional) The title of font selection dialog. If it's not passed, then a default title "Font" will be used.
Returns A new hildon.FontSelectionDialog widget.

Methods

get_preview_text

Gets the text in preview dialog, which does not include the reference text ("Reference: ").

hildon.FontSelectionDialog.get_preview_text()
Returns The preview text being used. eg: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

set_preview_text

Sets the text in preview dialog, which does not include the reference text ("Reference: "). The default preview text is "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs".

hildon.FontSelectionDialog.set_preview_text(text)
text The preview text to be used.

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