Changeset 347

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Dec 4, 2009 5:04:32 PM (11 years ago)

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toby

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# on 2000/11/21 21:21:57, toby did:
doc how to change fonts

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+<hr><H2>
+Customizing Example 4: Changing the fonts used in the GUI
+</H2>
+<B>Question: </B>
+<I>I use a 19" screen with a resolution 1280x1024. With this resolution, the
+fonts are really small in the GUI. Is a way exist to increase the font size?
+</I>
+<UL>
+<B>Answer: </B>
+The fonts used in EXPGUI can be customized by adding some code to the 
+<TT>localconfig</TT> file or the 
+<TT>~/.gsas_config</TT> or (or <TT>C:\GSAS\EXPGUI\.gsas_config</TT>) file.
+By default, fonts are 14 point for the menus, buttons, labels,... and 
+12 point for the histogram and atom lists.
+<P>
+This code changes those fonts to 18 and 16 point, respectively.
+<UL><PRE>
+option add *Font            -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *font            -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *Menu.font       -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *Menubutton.font -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *Label.font      -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *Scale.font      -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+option add *TitleFrame.font -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+set expgui(coordfont) "-*-courier-bold-r-normal--16-*"
+set expgui(histfont) "-*-courier-bold-r-normal--16-*"
+</PRE></UL>
+<P>
+A slightly different and perhaps cleaner approach is to specify the font 
+sizes in pixels. 
+The code below uses font sizes of 18 and 16 pixels, respectively.
+<UL><PRE>
+option add *Font            "Helvetica -18"
+option add *font            "Helvetica -18"
+option add *Menu.font       "Helvetica -18 bold"
+option add *Menubutton.font "Helvetica -18 bold"
+option add *Label.font      "Helvetica -18 bold"
+option add *Scale.font      "Helvetica -18 bold italic"
+option add *TitleFrame.font "Helvetica -18 bold italic"
+set expgui(coordfont) "Courier -16 bold"
+set expgui(histfont)  "Courier -16 bold"
+</PRE></UL>
+It should be noted that the appearance of fonts depends on many factors --
+the fonts installed on your computer, the screen size and resolution and your 
+eyes, so it is wise to experiment with different values in the above 
+examples.
+</UL>
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