[Lazarus] font.name=default

[Philippe]

I wrote about a suggestion ... a Lazarus default font ... 

may be,
as far as I understand, using "Parent Font" property is the way ... I´ll
try it! 

Philippe 

Em 20.08.2014 19:54, Philippe escreveu: 

> thank
for your answer. 
> 
> I found the default font on my machine/windows 8
is Segoe UI. I´ll check if it is avalaible under other version of
Windows ... 
> 
> your suggestion (looping controls) is interesting, I
didn´t know it, but will change all the controls of the form ... and
that is not what I need ... I just want to change the Lazarus default.
So it will change the font of controls using font.name='Default' in the
configuration/object inspector. 
> 
> Philippe 
> 
> Em 20.08.2014
12:58, Salvatore Coppola escreveu: 
> 
>> 2014-08-16 12:40 GMT+02:00
Philippe <philippe at quarta.com.br>:
>> 
>>> I wrote a program, used
font.name [1]=default for allmost everything ... it was looking as Arial
font. Fine. 
>>> 
>>> It was on a Windows 8 machine. 
>>> 
>>> Then I
copied the program to a Windows XP machine to check. 
>>> 
>>> Where
static text and others are written with something looking as a New Times
Roman ...
>>> and sometimes not fitting in the field width ... and be
splitted! 
>>> 
>>> I undestood there is something about windows default
font. Googled ... ... ... 
>>> 
>>> On the my W8 machine default font
(from registers) are Microsoft Sans Serif and Tahoma ... diferent. 
>>>

>>> I made a test. In the attached image, the first text is with
default, the second with Arial, both with bold mode. Arial was the
closest font from default I found ... but still a bit diferent. 
>>>

>>> Question 1): which default font is used with Lazarus ?
>> 
>> the
theme fonts 
>> 
>>> Question 2): is there a way I can set the default
font in Lazarus?
>> 
>> I don't know if is possible in RAD way, but you
can set the font you want in on create event for each controls you want.

>> 
>> procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); 
>> var i:
integer; 
>> begin 
>> for i:=0 to ControlCount-1 do 
>>
Controls[i].Font:=YOURFONT; 
>> end; 
>> 
>> Thank for your help 
>> 
>>
Philippe 
>> 
>> PS. F1 in
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