<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >How do I change the font of a GtkText widget?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Development with GTK+: widget specific questions" HREF="c698.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How do I use horizontal scrollbars with a GtkText widget?" HREF="x838.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How do I set the cursor position in a GtkText object?" HREF="x847.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x838.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Development with GTK+: widget specific questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x847.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN841" >How do I change the font of a GtkText widget?</A ></H1 ><P >There are a couple of ways of doing this. As GTK+ allows the appearance of applications to be changed at run time using resources you can use something like the following in the appropriate file:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >style "text" { font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Another way to do this is to load a font within your program, and then use this in the functions for adding text to the text widget. You can load a font using, for example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > GdkFont *font; font = gdk_font_load("-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*");</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x838.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x847.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How do I use horizontal scrollbars with a GtkText widget?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c698.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How do I set the cursor position in a GtkText object?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >