[Lazarus] font.name=default

[Philippe]

nice. it may help some day! 

I already made the changes using
"parent font" and so one ... a bit work! ... but it is done and it has
been usefull to check a all the user´s interface !!! 

thanks 

Philippe


Em 22.08.2014 10:26, Salvatore Coppola escreveu: 

> You can choose
the controls you want this way 
> 
> var i: integer; 
> begin 
> for
i:=0 to ControlCount-1 do 
> if Controls[i] is TButton then 
>
ShowMessage(Controls[i].Name); 
> end; 
> Ciao 
> 
> 2014-08-21 13:09
GMT+02:00 Philippe <philippe at quarta.com.br>:
> 
>> 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
[1]='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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