[fxruby-users] How can you bold the text in a label?

[Joey Kinsella]

There are definitely better ways of doing this, but here is a basic example:

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#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'fox16'

include Fox

class SimpleWindow < FXMainWindow
  def initialize(app)
    super(app, "My Simple Window", :opts => DECOR_ALL,
      :width => 640, :height => 480)

    draw_widgets()
  end

  def draw_widgets()
    label = FXLabel.new(self, "This is my label that is normal.")
    label.font = FXFont.new(getApp(), select_font())

    label2 = FXLabel.new(self, "This is my label that is bold.")
    label2.font = FXFont.new(getApp(), select_font(FONTWEIGHT_BOLD))

  end

  def select_font(weight = FONTWEIGHT_NORMAL)
    f = FXFontDesc.new()
    f.encoding = FONTENCODING_DEFAULT
    f.face = "Helvetica"
    f.flags = 0
    f.setwidth = FONTSETWIDTH_WIDE
    f.size = 100
    f.slant = FONTSLANT_REGULAR
    f.weight = weight

    return (f)
  end

  def create()
    super()
    show(PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
  end
end

if(__FILE__ == $0)
  app = FXApp.new("Example", "Example")
  win = SimpleWindow.new(app)

  app.create()
  app.run()
end

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I Hope this helps!
http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXFont.html

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Paul Carvalho <tester.paul at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not at my development computer right now so I can't tell you the exact
> code I tried, but I can say that, yes, I did try to use a nil/empty string
> font face and Ruby choked on it -- didn't like it.
>
> I tried "system" as a font face and that *really* didn't do what I wanted
> either! =)
>
> I entered "arial" and then the one label font changed - I had forgotten
> that the default system font is not Arial.  So the one label really stands
> out now because it's a totally different font.. which is not what I want.
>
> I don't want to hard-code a font that is different from the system font,
> especially if the app will run on different platforms and I don't know what
> the default fonts will be.
>
> I can try some other variations tonight.  I've already spent over 4 hours
> on this and haven't gotten it to work.  Maybe I just needed a break to see
> something that I've missed.
>
> I thought it would be something that would have come up by now.. I've seen
> lots of apps where a label is bolded to indicate a required field.  I just
> haven't found any FXRuby examples of this *without* also specifying the font
> at the same time.
>
> Cheers.  P.
>
>
> 2010/4/15 Bartosz Dziewoński :
>
>
>> Have you tried to use nil/empty string font face and use font style
>> hint "System"? Or try any font together with the hint?
>>
>> I haven't tried it myself, but according to docs it might work.
>>
>>
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