[lazarus] SystemFont in TTextStyle

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:13:23 +0200
Micha Nelissen <M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl> wrote:

> 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.

Yep. The font implementation is not complete in the gtk intf. 


Mattias