Gtk2-Perl issue with fonts

japhy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've just started using Gtk2, and I've encountered a problem that I haven't been able to find any helpful information about online. I want to change the font of a widget.

I know how to do this in Tk, but not in Gtk2. I've looked at the Pango docs, and tried to find something slightly helpful in the Gtk2 docs, but to no avail. Is there anyone out there who knows what to do?

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Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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Re: Gtk2-Perl issue with fonts by zgrim (Friar) on Feb 06, 2005 at 01:12 UTC
The manual and ... some example code: `my $font = Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string('Tahoma 10'); $view->modify_font($font);` [download] perl -MLWP::Simple -e'print$_%%\n\|, get(q=http://cpan.org/misc/japh=)))'	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Gtk2-Perl issue with fonts by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2005 at 12:27 UTC
You shouldn't normally monkey with the fonts: users pick themes to make things look a particular way. You shouldn't override their choice without a particular good reason. In any case, quoting muppet in DBA5992A-56A5-11D8-8865-000A9580E5E0@asofyet.org: careful, you tread on ground where the answer is usually "you shouldn't do that, that's what themes are for!" in general, i've found very little reason to use direct manipulation of fonts as you posted in your example code; i use pango markup for that sort of thing. you can set markup on a label with the set_markup method, and you can get a button to use this by creating a markup-using button, and putting that into your button. `$button = Gtk2::Button->new; $label = Gtk2::Label->new; $label->set_markup ('<big>Hi</big>, <span color="red">this rocks</span>'); $button->add ($label);` [download] in my not so humble opinion, that's about a bazillion times easier than dorking about with font descriptions and styles and all that. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Gtk2-Perl issue with fonts by japhy (Canon) on Feb 06, 2005 at 22:14 UTC
Well, I'm making a very specific application, and I want it to use a specific font. Specifically, the one from the old SSI AD&D Gold Box games. (I'm creating the font from screenshots because I haven't been able to find it anywhere.) _____________________________________________________ Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]