Re: cant change font

[Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua>]

Garrone, Peter wrote:

> I parse the following resource file from my application.
>
> #------------------------------------------------------
> style "all"
> {
> 	font = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 	fg[NORMAL] = {0,0, 1.0}
> }
> widget_class "*" style "all"
> #------------------------------------------------------
>
> This changes the text color to blue, proving that the style gets applied,
> but the font size never changes when I vary the number "17" in the font to
> say "8". 
>
> I verify that the fonts exist with the "xfd" utility.
>
> I would appreciate a list of possibilities of what the problem could be.
>
> I am using gtk version 2.0 that came with mandrake linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk
> In the include file gtkversion.h major.minor.micro is 1.3.13
> Pango is version 1, with the libraries indicating "0.24".
>
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You should use Pango font description there in gtk+-2.0:
#------------------------------------------------------
style "all"
{
font = "helvetica 17" # or smth else you want
fg[NORMAL] = {0,0, 1.0}
}
widget_class "*" style "all"
#------------------------------------------------------


Olexiy