[lazarus] SystemFont in TTextStyle

Micha Nelissen M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl
Tue Aug 26 13:13:43 EDT 2003


Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:53:30 +0200
> Micha Nelissen <M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:50:49 +0200
>>>Micha Nelissen <M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>>2) The system font is really ugly on win32. Should the interface 
>>>>substitute a nicer font or should the lcl only specify system font for 
>>>>fatal errors?
>>>
>>>
>>>The LCL should use as default font the same font as all other apps on
>>>the desktop. 
>>
>>Okay, but what is the difference between setting TextStyle.SystemFont 
>>and specifying FontName = 'default' ?
> 
> 
> The Font Name is only one TFont property.
> TextStyle.SystemFont specifies the name, size, pitch, charset. And maybe
> more in future.

Hmm, as far as I can see, the GTK checks if the name is 'default', and 
if so, loads a default font, with default size and everything.

Regards,

Micha.






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