On Monday 27 February 2006 11:40, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:15:03 +0200 > > "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 27 February 2006 10:47, Micha Nelissen wrote: > > > A.J. Venter wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Probably the most requested feature for tappytux is that the entry > > > > line where users type answers needs to be bigger (I mean huge) and > > > > prettier, using something like Comic Sans font at size 32 should do > > > > it, but of course lazarus provides no means of setting fonts and > > > > gtkrc seems to only be able to do it globally - not for one widget > > > > type only. > > > > > > Are you sure gtk is really incapable of showing a different font for > > > certain widgets ? IIRC Darek implemented Color property for some > > > widgets, so I guess fonts should be possible as well. (But I have no > > > gtk experience). > > > > > > If this is possible, then this is *the* way to go. > > > > I spent about 4 hours last night reading gtkrc howto´s and studying > > existing theme files and thus far I cannot find anything to do this, > > even then it STILL requires an external gtkrc file, I think a component > > for those cases where you do need it would be very usefull, the same way > > a tstatictext can be used instead of a tlabel when you just need output. > > I just tried under linux/gtk1: Setting a TEdit font size to 30 gave a a > huge font. > Then this may be the right way, although I am using GTK2 here (I need the pango UTF support), and gtk_rc_parse will allow me to force a specific theme file. How exactly does your line look ? Any idea how I need ot change it to use GTK2 ? Or did you do this in code ?
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