On Feb 29, 2012, at 17:06, Bryan Oakley wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Bob Greschke wrote:
> What's the correct way to change the font size? The "Change" button isn't
> doing what I thought it would. The font changes size, but turns into some
> proportional font. I'm kinda new (1 day) to using TkFixedFont and its
> friends. I'm used to ("Monoco", 9) sort of stuff and I'm not sure I
> understand what's going on.
>
> The best way is to use a named font. With that you can do
> 'myfont.configure(size=new_size)'. Then, every widget that uses that font
> will automatically see the change.
>
> For more information see
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x444-fonts.htm
>
> Named fonts are one of the true gems of tk. They have been part of the
> toolkit for probably a decade or more, and still to the best of my knowledge
> no popular toolkit has anything as powerful and easy to use.
Thanks Bryan. That was the kick-in-the-pants that I needed to Do The Right
Thing. It looks like it's going to work out quite well.
Bob
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