Font

Location: NOT INSTALLED!

Description

This is the object you pass to other gui objects to set their font name or size.

Class Methods

.antiAliasing

Arguments:

flag	An instance of Boolean. Default value is `false`.

.smoothing

Arguments:

flag	An instance of Boolean. Default value is `false`.

.default

The global default Font.

Setting this property is equivalent to Font.setDefault(font). See *setDefault for details.

.setDefault

Sets the global default font. Properties of the font argument will be combined with properties of the default system font, and those of individual views.

Optionally, a class can be given, so only views of that class will be affected.

Note that this will immediately affect any existing views.

Arguments:

font	An instance of Font.
class	A Class (either View or one of its subclasses), or `nil`.

Instance Methods

.name

Gets/sets the name of the font.

Arguments:

value

An instance of String.

.size

Gets/sets the size of the font. Setting this variable is always considered as setting the -pixelSize, while getting it will return any size set. See -hasPointSize for distinction.

Arguments:

pixelSize

A Float.

A Boolean variable indicating whether the -size is regarded as pixel-size (precise amount of pixels), or point-size (adapting to screen resolution). To change this, you need to set the size via -pixelSize or -pointSize.

.pixelSize

Gets or sets the pixel-size of the font. When getting, returns nil if the font has point-size instead. See -hasPointSize for distinction.

Arguments:

Any number, but note that floats will be rounded to integer values when setting pixel-size.

.pointSize

Gets or sets the point-size of the font. When getting, returns nil if the font has pixel-size instead. See -hasPointSize for distinction.

Arguments:

A Float.

.setDefault

Makes this instance of Font the default.

This is equivalent to calling *setDefault with this Font and the given class as arguments.

.storeArgs

(?)

Returns:

an Array, [ name, size ].

.boldVariant

NOTE: On the Cocoa GUI it appends "-Bold" to the name. This is only useful for fonts that have bold variants.

Returns:

Bold variant of the Font.

Inherited instance methods

Examples

(
w = Window.new.front;
t = StaticText(w, w.view.bounds).align_(\center);
t.string=" SUPERCOLLIDER";
)
t.font = Font("Monaco", 24);

(
var updateFont;
w = Window("Fonts", Rect(150, Window.screenBounds.height - 500, 400, 400)).front;
w.view.decorator = FlowLayout(w.view.bounds);
StaticText.new(w, Rect(5, 0, 30, 20)).string_("Font").align_(\right);
m = PopUpMenu(w, Rect(40, 0, 250, 20));
m.items = Font.availableFonts;

StaticText.new(w, Rect(290, 0, 28, 20)).string_("Size").align_(\right);
y = PopUpMenu(w, Rect(322, 0, 50, 20));
y.items = ["6","7","8","9","10","12","13","14","18","24","36","48","60","72","96"];

t = TextView(w, Rect(10, 40, 380, 150));
t.string = "\nThe quick drowned fox jumped over the lazy blog. \n\n 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ";

a = StaticText(w, 200@20).string_("The quick drowned fox").background_(Color.rand).align_(\center);
b = Button(w, 200@20).states_([["The quick drowned fox"]]).background_(Color.rand);
c = PopUpMenu(w, 200@20).items_(["The quick drowned fox"]).background_(Color.rand);

y.action = {
    var font;
    font = Font(m.items[m.value],y.items[y.value].asInteger);
    a.font_(font).refresh;
    b.font_(font).refresh;
    c.font_(font).refresh;
    t.font_(font).refresh;
};

m.action = y.action;

m.valueAction = 3;
y.valueAction = 5;
)

(
var w, f;

w = Window("Fonts", Rect(128, 64, 340, 360));
w.view.decorator = f = FlowLayout(w.view.bounds,Point(4, 4),Point(4, 2));

[
"Helvetica-Bold",
"Helvetica",
"Monaco",
"Arial",
"Gadget",
"MarkerFelt-Thin"
].do({ arg name;
    var v, s, n, spec, p, height = 16;

v = StaticText(w, Rect(0, 0, 110, height + 20));
        v.font = Font(name, 13);
        v.string = name;

s = Button(w, Rect(0, 0, 140, height + 20));
        s.font = Font(name, 13);
        s.states = [[name]];

n = NumberBox(w, Rect(0, 0, 56, height + 20));
        n.font = Font(name, 13);
        n.object = pi;

f.nextLine;
});

w.front;
)

(
var w, f, i = 0;

w = Window("Fonts", Rect(128, 64, 1024, 768));
b = ScrollView(w, w.view.bounds);

b.decorator = f = FlowLayout(b.bounds, Point(4,4), Point(4,2));

Font.availableFonts.do({ arg name;
    var v, s, n, spec, p, height = 16, font;
    font = Font(name,13);

v = StaticText(b, Rect(0, 0, 120, height + 20));
        v.font = font;
        v.string = name;

s = Button(b, Rect(0, 0, 140, height + 20));
        s.font = font;
        s.states = [[name]];
        s.action = { font.asCompileString.postln; };

n = NumberBox(b, Rect(0, 0, 56, height + 20));
        n.font = font;
        n.object = pi;
    if( (i = i + 1) % 3 == 0,{
        f.nextLine;
    });
});

w.front;
)

helpfile source: https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/tree/3.13/HelpSource/Classes/Font.schelp
link::Classes/Font::

name	An instance of String. Must coincide with the name of a font on the system. See *availableFonts.
size	An instance of Float.
bold	A Boolean.
italic	A Boolean.
usePointSize	A Boolean. Whether to regard the size argument as point-size - adapting to the screen resolution.

Description

Class Methods

.new

Arguments:

Discussion:

.availableFonts

Returns:

.antiAliasing

Arguments:

.smoothing

Arguments:

.defaultSansFace

Returns:

.defaultSerifFace

Returns:

.defaultMonoFace

Returns:

.default

.setDefault

Arguments:

.sansSerif

.monospace

.serif

Inherited class methods

Instance Methods

.name

Arguments:

.size

Arguments:

.hasPointSize

.pixelSize

Arguments:

.pointSize

Arguments:

.setDefault

.storeArgs

Returns:

.boldVariant

Returns:

Inherited instance methods

Examples