FontButton

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public class Application : Gtk.Window {

	public Application () {
		// Prepare Gtk.Window:
		this.title = "My Gtk.FontButton";
		this.window_position = Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER;
		this.destroy.connect (Gtk.main_quit);

		// The button:
		Gtk.FontButton button = new Gtk.FontButton ();
		this.add (button);

		// Use the selected font & size to draw the button-label:
		button.use_font = true;
		button.use_size = true;

		// Sets the title for the font chooser dialog:
		button.set_title ("Pick your favourite font");

		// Connect a signal:
		button.font_set.connect (() => {
			// Emitted when a font has been chosen:
			unowned string name = button.get_font_name ();
			print ("Selected font: %s\n", name);
		});
	}

	public static int main (string[] args) {
		Gtk.init (ref args);

		Application app = new Application ();
		app.show_all ();
		Gtk.main ();
		return 0;
	}
}

valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 Gtk.FontButton.vala

Content:

Properties:

• public string font_name { get; set; }
  The name of the currently selected font.
• public bool show_size { get; set; }
  If this property is set to true, the selected font size will be shown in the label.
• public bool show_style { get; set; }
  If this property is set to true, the name of the selected font style will be shown in the label.
• public string title { get; set; }
  The title of the font chooser dialog.
• public bool use_font { get; set; }
  If this property is set to true, the label will be drawn in the selected font.
• public bool use_size { get; set; }
  If this property is set to true, the label will be drawn with the selected font size.

Creation methods:

• public FontButton ()
  Creates a new font picker widget.
• public FontButton.with_font (string fontname)
  Creates a new font picker widget.

Methods:

• public unowned string get_font_name ()
  Retrieves the name of the currently selected font.
• public bool get_show_size ()
  Returns whether the font size will be shown in the label.
• public bool get_show_style ()
  Returns whether the name of the font style will be shown in the label.
• public unowned string get_title ()
  Retrieves the title of the font chooser dialog.
• public bool get_use_font ()
  Returns whether the selected font is used in the label.
• public bool get_use_size ()
  Returns whether the selected size is used in the label.
• public bool set_font_name (string fontname)
  Sets or updates the currently-displayed font in font picker dialog.
• public void set_show_size (bool show_size)
  If show_size is true, the font size will be displayed along with the name of the selected font.
• public void set_show_style (bool show_style)
  If show_style is true, the font style will be displayed along with name of the selected font.
• public void set_title (string title)
  Sets the title for the font chooser dialog.
• public void set_use_font (bool use_font)
  If use_font is true, the font name will be written using the selected font.
• public void set_use_size (bool use_size)
  If use_size is true, the font name will be written using the selected size.

Signals:

• public virtual signal void font_set ()
  The font_set signal is emitted when the user selects a font.

Inherited Members: