NAME

Tk::FontDialog - a font dialog widget for perl/Tk

SYNOPSIS

    use Tk::FontDialog;
    $font = $top->FontDialog->Show;

DESCRIPTION

Tk::FontDialog implements a font dialog widget.

In the Family and Size listboxes, the font family and font size can be specified. The checkbuttons on the right turn on bold, italic, underlined and overstriked variants of the chosen font. A sample of the font is shown in the middle area.

With the ``Alt sample'' checkbutton, it is possible to show all characters in the charset instead of the default text. ``Fixed only'' restricts the font family list to fixed fonts only. If the ``Nicefonts'' checkbutton is set, then the font names in the listbox are displayed in the corresponding font. Note that this option can be slow if a lot of fonts are installed or for 16 bit fonts.

A click with the right button in the font size listbox pops up a window to enter arbitrary font sizes.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

-font: The dialog font.
-initfont: The initial font.
-fontsizes: A list of font sizes. The default contains sizes from 0 to 72 points (XXX or pixels?).
-nicefont: If set, font names are displayed in its font style. This may be slow, especially if you have many fonts or 16 bit fonts (e.g. Asian fonts).
-nicefontsbutton: If set to false, then the ``Nice fonts'' button is not displayed.
-fixedfont: If set, proportional font families are not listed, leaving only the fixed fonts. This is slow, as each font must be checked to see if it is fixed or proportional.
-fixedfontsbutton: If set to false, then the ``Fixed fonts'' button is not displayed.
-sampletext: The sample text which should contain all letters. The default is ``The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog'' German readers may probably use ``Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern''.

INTERNATIONALIZATION

There are a couple of options to change the labels of the dialog. Note that you can prepend a tilde (~) to get an accelerator key with Alt. Here is a list of these options with the default (English) setting:

-familylabel (Family:)
-sizelabel (Size:)
-weightlabel (Bold)
-slantlabel (Italic)
-underlinelabel (Underline)
-overstrikelabel (Overstrike)
-oklabel (OK)
-applylabel (Apply)
-cancellabel (Cancel)
-altsamplelabel (Alt sample)
-nicefontslabel (Nicefonts)
-fixedfontslabel (Fixed Only)
-title (Choose font)
-customsizetitle (Choose font size)

CAVEAT

Note that font names with whitespace like ``New century schoolbook'' or ``MS Sans Serif'' can cause problems when using in a -font option. The solution is to put the names in Tcl-like braces, like

    -font => "{New century schoolbook} 10"

BUGS/TODO

  - ConfigSpecs handling is poor
    put at least -font into configspecs
  - run test, call dialog for 2nd time: immediate change of font?
  - better name for nicefont
  - restrict on charsets and encodings (xlsfonts? X11::Protocol::ListFonts?)
    difficult because core Tk font handling ignores charsets and encodings

AUTHOR

Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

Suggestions by Michael Houghton <herveus@Radix.Net>.

COPYRIGHT

Tk::FontDialog - a font dialog widget for perl/Tk