Re: Changing the font in single menuitems

[Jose Eusebio Roza Pando <eusebio roza uah es>]

Sebastian Zerbe wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to write an application for
> computing minimal distinctive
> features of natural classes (as you
> can see this is related to phonology).
> Therefore I need to change the font
> used by single menu items to xipa.
> I tried it with some code like this:
> -------- cut ----------
> for (i = 0; i < 28; i++) {
>     buf[0] = obstruents[i];
>     buf[1] = '\0';
>
>     menuitems = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label(buf);
>
>     ipastyle = gtk_widget_get_style(menuitems);
>     ipastyle->font = gdk_font_load(IPAFONT);
>     gtk_widget_set_style(menuitems, ipastyle);
>
>     gtk_menu_append(GTK_MENU(menu), menuitems);
>     gtk_widget_show(menuitems);
> }
> -------- cut ----------
>
> But this changes the font of the
> whole application.
>
> Does anybody know a way to
> change font for single widgets
> (beside text widgets where this
> problem seems solvable)?
>
> BTW I'm using gtk Version
> 1.2.10 (latest deb package
> from ximian).
>
> Any ideas or do I have to use
> PNG's of the phonetic symbols
> (might be a good approach as
> well)?
>
> Best Regards,
> Sebastian Zerbe

with rc file (you can find in gtk tutorial, but in the examples there
are some programming errors) you can change the font of a determinate
widget, but I don´t know if it works with menuitems.
Good Luck!