Re: setting the font of a dialog widget

[jcupitt gmail com]

Hi Garth,

2008/4/18 Garth's KidStuff <garthskidstuff gmail com>:
>  that's not relevant).  If the widget I'm trying to set happens to be a
>  Gtk::Label, then it works.  But other widgets (e.g. Gtk::Frame or
>  Gtk::Checkbutton) don't and just seem to use their default font no matter
>  what.  For example:

I do this with gtk_label_set_markup(). For example:

  gtk_label_set_markup (GTK_LABEL (label), "<span font_desc=\"Sans\"
size=\"medium\">hello</span>");

>     // Add the fixed widget to the dialog and size it properly
>     get_vbox()->add(m_Fixed);
>     m_Fixed.set_size_request( 566, 500 );

Fixed size widgets should be avoided if you possibly can, I'm sure you
know this. gtk has a lot of layout widgets you can use to make
resizeable dialogs.

John