Font (gb.qt4)

This class represents a font used for drawing or displaying text in controls.

This class is creatable.

This class acts like a read-only static array.

Properties

Ascent	Returns the ascent of the font.
Bold	Indicates if a font is bold.
Descent	Returns the descent of the font.
Fixed	Returns if a font is fixed, i.e. if all its characters have the same width.
Grade	Returns or sets the relative size of the font.
H	A synonymous for the Height property.
Height	Returns the height in pixels of a text displayed with the font.
Italic	Indicates if a font is italic.
Modified	Return or set if a font has been modified.
Name	Returns or sets the name of the font.
Scalable	Returns if a font is scalable.
Size	Returns or sets the size of the font.
Strikeout	Indicates if a font is strikeout.
Styles	Returns all styles supported by the font.
Underline	Indicates if a font is underlined.

Methods

Copy	Return a copy of the font object.
RichTextHeight	Return the height of a rich text fragment.
RichTextSize	Return the size of a rich text fragment.
RichTextWidth	Return the width of a rich text fragment.
TextHeight	Return the height of a text string.
TextSize	Return the size of a text string.
TextWidth	Return the width of a text string.
ToString	Returns the full name of a font as a description string.

The font object from the Control.Font property keeps a link to the control it comes from, so that modifying this font object modifies the font used for drawing the control.

Examples

' Set the font used by MyTextBox for displaying its text MyTextBox.Font.Name = "Utopia"

' Set the font used by MyTextBox for displaying its text from a string containing the font values MyTextBox.Font = Font["Arial,12,Bold"]