Re: Can't change button font size

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Mike Mayer wrote:

> I can change label font sizes but not button font sizes, and I don't
> know why. For example, the code below works for the label but not the
> button:

careful, you tread on ground where the answer is usually "you shouldn't 
do that, that's what themes are for!"

in general, i've found very little reason to use direct manipulation of 
fonts as you posted in your example code; i use pango markup for that 
sort of thing.

you can set markup on a label with the set_markup method, and you can 
get a button to use this by creating a markup-using button, and putting 
that into your button.

        $button = Gtk2::Button->new;
        $label = Gtk2::Label->new;
	$label->set_markup ('<big>Hi</big>, <span color="red">this 
rocks</span>');
        $button->add ($label);

in my not so humble opinion, that's about a bazillion times easier than 
dorking about with font descriptions and styles and all that.

the C api reference for pango has information on pango markup:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/PangoMarkupFormat.html



as for why your original change doesn't affect the text in the button, 
i wager it's because you changed the button's style, not the style of 
the button's child label, which actually displays the text.

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