Re: Changing control font size

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Fred,

Ignore that list. The only defined font sizes in the defaults are @„NSFontSize“, @„NSLabelFontSize“ and @„NSSmallFontSize“. You have to use these strings if you want to set this programmatically

I have done

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching

{

   #ifndef __APPLE__

   [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:20.0] forKey:@"NSFontSize"];

   [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:20.0] forKey:@"NSLabelFontSize"];

   #endif

   ....

}

but this does not seem to have changed anything. The font used by TableViews, ComboBoxes, TextFields and Buttons is still the same!?    

but most likely it is easier to set them via the defaults file once.

You mean

defaults write ScaleMaster NSFontSize 20

defaults write ScaleMaster NSLabelFontSize 20

?

Thanks a lot,

 Andreas

Hope this helps,
Fred

Am 22.09.2021 um 15:40 schrieb Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de>:

Hi all,

I am building a GNUstep app on Ubuntu 20.04 and would like the font used by NSButtons, NSTableView, NSComboBox etc. to be larger as normal for industrial usage of the app (better readability from further away from the screen).

I found this list

NSBoldFontSize

NSControlContentFontSize

NSFontSize

NSLabelFontSize

NSMenuFontSize

NSMiniFontSize

NSMessageFontSize

NSPaletteFontSize

NSSmallFontSize

NSTitleBarFontSize

NSToolTipsFontSize

NSUserFixedPitchFontSize

NSUserFontSize
and greped through the GNUstep sources for NSControlContentFontSize but only found

grep -r "NSControlContentFontSize" /usr/src/GNUstep/

/usr/src/GNUstep/libs-gui/Source/NSFont.m:    <item>NSControlContentFontSize  (none)</item>
/usr/src/GNUstep/libs-gui/Source/NSToolbarItem.m:  // [NSFont smallSystemFontSize] or better should be NSControlContentFontSize

Is this default used at all? How would I programmatically change the font size for all the controls in the user interface. I intuitively tried

  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:20.0] forKey:NSControlContentFontSize];
  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:20.0] forKey:NSLabelFontSize];

but this of course does not build since NSControlContentFontSize is undefined.

I am obviously missing the point!? :-(

Any idea?

Thanks a lot,

Andreas

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