On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:44:29 +0200
"George Birbilis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ignoring the font dialog since it's another thing (it has
> > preview which covers the needs of the user a bit), the font
> > name property editor (it shows a drop-down list, could show
> > an owner-drawn one instead) would be the thing to change
> > (once for all platforms I suppose). BTW, speaking of many
> > platforms, how does Lazarus support "fonts" crossplatform?
> > (does it delegate the burden onto the OS ? [since there is
> > raster/bitmap fonts, TrueType, OpenType, PostScript etc.
> > fonts that one could support)
>
> I know in Delphi one uses owner-drawn list to draw their own items
> (in fact I had suggested Delphi Object Inspector do that many years
> ago at Delphi newsgroups, when we had plain text dropdown lists even
> for color names), but what is used in Lazarus? Is it the same scheme
> or something that is maybe more crossplatform? Any online text about
> it?
The LCL provides a Delphi compatible TFont.
The widgetsets searches the nearest font.
The gtk interface also understands XLD font names, where the
font name is a 15 attribute filter.
So, basically you can select every available font under windows and
under gtk/X. But they are not cross platform.
The OI combobox is custom drawn, so it would be possible to draw every
font. But afaik this would be quite slow and needs a lot of resources.
I'm not an font expert, so I don't know, what properties are needed by
TFont to make it cross platform (if this is possible).
Mattias
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