On Monday 27 February 2006 10:47, Micha Nelissen wrote: > A.J. Venter wrote: > > Hi all, > > Probably the most requested feature for tappytux is that the entry line > > where users type answers needs to be bigger (I mean huge) and prettier, > > using something like Comic Sans font at size 32 should do it, but of > > course lazarus provides no means of setting fonts and gtkrc seems to only > > be able to do it globally - not for one widget type only. > > Are you sure gtk is really incapable of showing a different font for > certain widgets ? IIRC Darek implemented Color property for some > widgets, so I guess fonts should be possible as well. (But I have no gtk > experience). > > If this is possible, then this is *the* way to go. > I spent about 4 hours last night reading gtkrc howto´s and studying existing theme files and thus far I cannot find anything to do this, even then it STILL requires an external gtkrc file, I think a component for those cases where you do need it would be very usefull, the same way a tstatictext can be used instead of a tlabel when you just need output.
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