Re: Font question

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/14/2009 06:23 PM, ikorot earthlink net wrote:

> Is there any way I can get the list of the sizes for the particular face name?

No.  The APIs I mentioned are the only way to list sizes for faces.

> I'm trying to create a font property page interface (font selection dialog, but
> for the property page).
> When user selects the font (face name), I'd like to update the size selection list
> with the available sizes for this particular font...

You need to track the families and faces yourself.  You can check how GTK+ 
does it.  Check gtk+/gtk/gtkfontsel.c

behdad


> Thank you.
>
> > behdad
> >
> > > Or I will need to call some function to transfer the name to be the type of
> > > "PangoFontFace"? Or I need to pass the "desc" variable to this function?
> > >
> > > > > Also my guess is that pango_font_description_get_size() returns only one size
> > > > > and not all available sizes for this specific font name. Am I right in this?
> > > > A font description does not necessarily correspond to any font on the system.
> > > >    It's just a description.  pango_font_description_get_size() simply returns
> > > > whatever was set using pango_font_description_set_size().
> > > Yes, so my thinking is correct.
> > >
> > > > behdad
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > > > Thank you.