in reply to Re^2: Tk: Scaling canvas objects
in thread Tk: Scaling canvas objects

I'll try out your code (assuming it's tested)

Yes, it's well tested standard code. If you want to zoom text, you can configure the font object to use a scaled up point size. Rebuilding the font, just as you rebuild a new image.

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Tk; require Tk::Font; #by originally by Chris Lamprecht my $MAIN = new MainWindow; my $canvas = $MAIN->Canvas()->pack(-expand => 'yes', -fill =>'both'); my $initial_fontsize = 24; my $scaling_factor = 1; my $l_text = "current scaling_factor : $scaling_factor"; my $helveticaStd = $MAIN->Font(-family=> 'Arial', -size => $initial_ +fontsize); my $text = 'This is some text'; $canvas->createText(50,50, -text => $text, -anchor => 'nw', -font => $helveticaStd); $canvas->createRectangle(47,47,290,87); for my$fac (0.8,1.2){ $MAIN->Button(-text => "Scale by $fac", -command => [\&scaling,$fac] )->pack; } $MAIN->Label(-textvariable=>\$l_text)->pack; MainLoop; sub scaling{ $scaling_factor *= $_[0]; $canvas->scale('all',0,0,$_[0],$_[0]); $helveticaStd->configure(-size=>$initial_fontsize * $scaling_factor +); $l_text = "current scaling_factor : $scaling_factor"; } __END__

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