Here's a script that will show you all the fonts you have available in Tk, with a demo of each font.
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use strict; use warnings; use Tk; use Tk::DialogBox; use Tk::LabEntry; my $mw = MainWindow -> new(-title => " Font Selecta!"); $mw -> withdraw; my @fonts = sort ($mw->fontFamilies); my $font_size = 12; my ($row, $col) = (0, 0); foreach (@fonts){ my $font = $_; my $button = $mw -> Button( -text => "$font", -command => sub {example($font)}, ) -> grid ( -row => $row, -column => $col++, -sticky => 'nsew', ); if ($col == 5) {$col = 0; $row++} } my $size = $mw -> LabEntry ( -label => 'Font Size: ', -textvariable => \$font_size, -labelPack => [qw(-side left -anchor w)], -background => "white", -width => 3, -justify => 'c', ) -> grid ( -row => ++$row, -column => 0, ); my $exit = $mw -> Button ( -text => 'EXIT', -command => sub {exit()}, -background => 'red', -activebackground => 'red', ) -> grid ( -row => $row, -column => 2, -sticky => 'nsew', ); $mw -> Popup; MainLoop; sub example { error() unless ($font_size =~ /^\d\d?$/); error() if ($font_size > 60); my $font = $_[0]; my $example = $mw -> DialogBox ( -title => "Sample Text in \"$font\" font, size $fo +nt_size", -buttons => ['OK'], ); $example -> add ('Label', -text => "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy +dog!\n". "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890-=\n +". "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\!\"\£\$\%\^\& +\*\(\)_+", -font => "{$font} $font_size", ) -> pack(); $example -> Show(); } sub error { my $error = $mw -> messageBox ( -title => "Invalid font size", -message => "Please enter a number from 0 to 60 fo +r the font size", -type => 'OK', -icon => 'error', ); $font_size = 12; }

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Re: See all the fonts you have available in Tk
by eserte (Deacon) on Jul 14, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
Re: See all the fonts you have available in Tk
by cchampion (Curate) on Jul 14, 2004 at 18:42 UTC
      FontMapper does not return a list of available fonts, it seems.
Re: See all the fonts you have available in Tk
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 15, 2004 at 14:12 UTC
    Nice script. But I would add a function to show the full name of the font, which is often needed. Up to now I've been using showfonts

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
      showfonts is X11 specific, due to the usage of xlsfonts. Under Windows, there is no such thing like a "full name".
      It does show the full names for me. I don't understand what you mean.