PyGTK and fonts

[Tad Marko]

Howdy!

I'm pretty new to both Python and PyGTK (about 10 hours at this
point), so please forgive me if this question has already been
answered somewhere. Basically, I've got a small program with a
GtkTextView and I'd like to change the font to a monospaced font.
Preferably the default monspace font for Gnome 2. Can anyone show me
the steps necessary to programatically change the font on the text
view?

Thanks for any help!

Tad

 

[Gary Herron]

Howdy!

I'm pretty new to both Python and PyGTK (about 10 hours at this
point), so please forgive me if this question has already been
answered somewhere. Basically, I've got a small program with a
GtkTextView and I'd like to change the font to a monospaced font.
Preferably the default monspace font for Gnome 2. Can anyone show me
the steps necessary to programatically change the font on the text
view?

Thanks for any help!

Tad

I too have about 10 hours experience with PyGTK and GTK+ (but about 10
*years* experience with python). I just figured out the answer to
your question yesterday. Here it is with the font name coming from
the return value of a font selection dialog.

fontName = fontDialog.get_font_name()
pangoFont = pango.FontDescription(fontName)
textView.modify_font(pangoFont)

The fontName could be hardcoded rather than comming from a font
selection dialog if you wanted. Here are some examples, the last two
of which are mono-space fonts:

Sans 12
Sans Italic 12
Sans Bold 12
Sans Bold Italic 12
Courier 12
Luxi Mono 12

Gary Herron

 

[P]

Howdy!

I'm pretty new to both Python and PyGTK (about 10 hours at this
point), so please forgive me if this question has already been
answered somewhere. Basically, I've got a small program with a
GtkTextView and I'd like to change the font to a monospaced font.
Preferably the default monspace font for Gnome 2. Can anyone show me
the steps necessary to programatically change the font on the text
view?

Thanks for any help!

Hi, I found these were required reading for using pygtk

FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=all
Tut: http://www.moeraki.com/pygtktutorial/pygtk2tutorial/index.html
Ref: http://www.moeraki.com/pygtkreference/pygtk2reference/

Note pygtk has just in the last few days reached version 2.
Also note that mandrake 9.2 will include it by default
Here is a useful search for existing mandrake and suse users:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?sta...dl=40&dist[]=13&dist[]=19&field[]=1&field[]=2

Pádraig.