Re: pushbuttons and bold

[Chris Wareham <chris wareham catchword com>]

Matt Eisemann wrote:
> 
> just resending this since no response to question below regarding
> pushbuttons and BOLD type.  Can't I use the same font and have it be bold?
>  see question below for more information.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Currently I am creating an application and I want the pushbuttons on the
> lower, and plssibly the upper part to be bold.  I do not want another font,
> so using a font_load does seem silly.  Isn't there a way to make the
> regular font that I am using (default I suppose since I didn't define any
> fonts) to be of BOLD type in a push button by using some mechanism like
> style->black_gc   I did see some emails about setting the label to bold,
> which requires that a new font be loaded.  Is there a way to bold a default
> font that is already loaded?  Thanks ahead of time for your help.
> 

In X, the bold variant of a font is another font, distinct from the medium
weight version. (This may be different on a `certain other' operating
system - I don't know much about fonts on that platform). Therefore, it is
most likely that you have to go through the whole process of loading the
bold version of the font. There *may* be a convenience function to load a
family of fonts rather than just one specific font, but as it would chew
up resources I very much doubt it.

Chris
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