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Tk::Font (3)
>> Tk::Font (3) ( Разные man: Библиотечные вызовы )
NAME
font - Create and inspect fonts.
SYNOPSIS
$widget->Font(option?, arg, arg, ...?)
$font->Option?(arg, arg, ...)?
DESCRIPTION
The Font method provides several facilities for dealing with
fonts, such as defining named fonts and inspecting the actual attributes of
a font. The command has several different forms, determined by the
first argument. The following forms are currently supported:
$font->actual(-option?)
$widget->fontActual(font?, -option?)
Returns information about the actual attributes that are obtained when
font is used on $font's display; the actual attributes obtained
may differ from the attributes requested due to platform-dependant
limitations, such as the availability of font families and pointsizes.
font is a font description; see ``FONT DESCRIPTION'' below. If
option is specified, returns the value of that attribute; if it is
omitted, the return value is a list of all the attributes and their values.
See ``FONT OPTIONS'' below for a list of the possible attributes.
Query or modify the desired attributes for $font.
If no -option is specified, returns a list describing
all the options and their values for fontname. If a single -option
is specified with no value, then returns the current value of that
attribute. If one or more option-value pairs are specified,
then the method modifies the given named font to have the given values; in
this case, all widgets using that font will redisplay themselves using the
new attributes for the font. See ``FONT OPTIONS'' below for a list of the
possible attributes.
Note: the above behaviour differs in detail to configure on widgets,
images etc.
Creates a new font object and returns a reference to it.
fontname specifies the name for the font; if it is omitted, then Tk generates
a new name of the form fontx, where x is an integer. There may be any
number of option-value pairs, which provide the desired attributes for
the new named font. See ``FONT OPTIONS'' below for a list of the possible
attributes.
Note: the created font is not shared between widgets of different
MainWindows.
$font->delete
$widget->fontDelete(fontname?, fontname, ...?)
Delete the specified named fonts. If there are widgets using the named font,
the named font won't actually be deleted until all the instances are
released. Those widgets will continue to display using the last known values
for the named font. If a deleted named font is subsequently recreated with
another call to fontCreate, the widgets will use the new named font
and redisplay themselves using the new attributes of that font.
$widget->fontFamilies
The return value is a list of the case-insensitive names of all font families
that exist on $widget's display.
$font->measure(text)
$widget->fontMeasure(font, text)
Measures the amount of space the string text would use in the given
font when displayed in $widget. font is a font description;
see ``FONT DESCRIPTION'' below.
The return value is the total width in pixels
of text, not including the extra pixels used by highly exagerrated
characters such as cursive ``f''. If the string contains newlines or tabs,
those characters are not expanded or treated specially when measuring the
string.
$font->metrics(-option?)
$widget->fontMetrics(font?, -option?)
Returns information about the metrics (the font-specific data), for
font when it is used on $widget's display. font is a font
description; see ``FONT DESCRIPTION'' below.
If option is specified,
returns the value of that metric; if it is omitted, the return value is a
list of all the metrics and their values. See ``FONT METRICS'' below for a list
of the possible metrics.
$widget->fontNames
The return value is a list of all font objects that are currently defined for
$widget's MainWindow.
FONT DESCRIPTION
The following formats are accepted as a font description anywhere
font is specified as an argument above; these same forms are also
permitted when specifying the -font option for widgets.
[1] fontname
The name of a named font, created using the fontCreate method. When
a widget uses a named font, it is guaranteed that this will never cause an
error, as long as the named font exists, no matter what potentially invalid
or meaningless set of attributes the named font has. If the named font
cannot be displayed with exactly the specified attributes, some other close
font will be substituted automatically.
[1a] $font
A font object created using the Font method. This is essentially the same
as using a named font. The object is a reference to the name, and carries
additional information e.g. which MainWindow it relates to in an manner peculiar
to perl/Tk.
[3] systemfont
The platform-specific name of a font, interpreted by the graphics server.
This also includes, under X, an XLFD (see [4]) for which a single ``*''
character was used to elide more than one field in the middle of the
name. See ``PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES'' for a list of the system fonts.
[3] [family,?size,??style,??style ...?]
A properly formed list whose first element is the desired font
family and whose optional second element is the desired size.
The interpretation of the size attribute follows the same rules
described for -size in ``FONT OPTIONS'' below. Any additional optional
arguments following the size are font styles. Possible values
for the style arguments are as follows:
normal bold roman italic
underline overstrike
[4] X-font names (XLFD)
A Unix-centric font name of the form
-foundry-family-weight-slant-setwidth-addstyle-pixel-point-resx-resy-spacing-width-charset-encoding.
The ``*'' character may be used to skip individual fields that the
user does not care about. There must be exactly one ``*'' for each
field skipped, except that a ``*'' at the end of the XLFD skips any
remaining fields; the shortest valid XLFD is simply ``*'', signifying
all fields as defaults. Any fields that were skipped are given default
values. For compatibility, an XLFD always chooses a font of the specified
pixel size (not point size); although this interpretation is not strictly
correct, all existing applications using XLFDs assumed that one ``point''
was in fact one pixel and would display incorrectly (generally larger) if
the correct size font were actually used.
[5] option value ?option value ...?
A properly formed list of option-value pairs that specify
the desired attributes of the font, in the same format used when defining
a named font; see ``FONT OPTIONS'' below.
When font description font is used, the system attempts to parse the
description according to each of the above five rules, in the order specified.
Cases [1] and [2] must match the name of an existing named font or of a
system font. Cases [3], [4], and [5] are accepted on all
platforms and the closest available font will be used. In some situations
it may not be possible to find any close font (e.g., the font family was
a garbage value); in that case, some system-dependant default font is
chosen. If the font description does not match any of the above patterns,
an error is generated.
FONT METRICS
The following options are used by the metrics/fontMetrics method to query
font-specific data determined when the font was created. These properties are
for the whole font itself and not for individual characters drawn in that
font. In the following definitions, the ``baseline'' of a font is the
horizontal line where the bottom of most letters line up; certain letters,
such as lower-case ``g'' stick below the baseline.
-ascent
The amount in pixels that the tallest letter sticks up above the baseline of
the font, plus any extra blank space added by the designer of the font.
($font-<gt>ascent is provided for compatibility.)
-descent
The largest amount in pixels that any letter sticks down below the baseline
of the font, plus any extra blank space added by the designer of the font.
($font-<gt>descent is provided for compatibility.)
-linespace
Returns how far apart vertically in pixels two lines of text using the same
font should be placed so that none of the characters in one line overlap any
of the characters in the other line. This is generally the sum of the ascent
above the baseline line plus the descent below the baseline.
-fixed
Returns a boolean flag that is ``1'' if this is a fixed-width font,
where each normal character is the the same width as all the other
characters, or is ``0'' if this is a proportionally-spaced font, where
individual characters have different widths. The widths of control
characters, tab characters, and other non-printing characters are not
included when calculating this value.
FONT OPTIONS
The following options are supported on all platforms, and are used when
constructing a named font or when specifying a font using style [5] as
above:
-family => name
The case-insensitive font family name. Tk guarantees to support the font
families named Courier (a monospaced ``typewriter'' font), Times
(a serifed ``newspaper'' font), and Helvetica (a sans-serif
``European'' font). The most closely matching native font family will
automatically be substituted when one of the above font families is used.
The name may also be the name of a native, platform-specific font
family; in that case it will work as desired on one platform but may not
display correctly on other platforms. If the family is unspecified or
unrecognized, a platform-specific default font will be chosen.
-size => size
The desired size of the font. If the size argument is a positive
number, it is interpreted as a size in points. If size is a negative
number, its absolute value is interpreted as a size in pixels. If a
font cannot be displayed at the specified size, a nearby size will be
chosen. If size is unspecified or zero, a platform-dependent default
size will be chosen.
The original Tcl/Tk authors believe sizes should normally be specified in points
so the application will remain the same ruler size on the screen, even when
changing screen resolutions or moving scripts across platforms. While this is an
admirable goal it does not work as well in practice as they hoped.
The mapping between points and pixels is set when the application starts, based
on alleged properties of the installed monitor, but it can be overridden by
calling the scaling command. However this can be
problematic when system has no way of telling if (say) an 11`` or 22'' monitor is
attached, also if it can tell then some monitor sizes may result in poorer
quality scaled fonts being used rather than a ``tuned'' bitmap font.
In addition specifying pixels is useful in certain circumstances such as when a piece of text
must line up with respect to a fixed-size bitmap.
At present the Tcl/Tk scheme is used unchanged, with ``point'' size being returned
by actual (as an integer), and used internally. Suggestions for work-rounds
to undesirable behaviour welcome.
-weight => weight
The nominal thickness of the characters in the font. The value
normal specifies a normal weight font, while bold specifies a
bold font. The closest available weight to the one specified will
be chosen. The default weight is normal.
-slant => slant
The amount the characters in the font are slanted away from the
vertical. Valid values for slant are roman and italic.
A roman font is the normal, upright appearance of a font, while
an italic font is one that is tilted some number of degrees from upright.
The closest available slant to the one specified will be chosen.
The default slant is roman.
-underline => boolean
The value is a boolean flag that specifies whether characters in this
font should be underlined. The default value for underline is false.
-overstrike => boolean
The value is a boolean flag that specifies whether a horizontal line should
be drawn through the middle of characters in this font. The default value
for overstrike is false.
PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
The following named system fonts are supported:
X Windows:
All valid X font names, including those listed by xlsfonts(1), are available.
MS Windows:
system ansi device
systemfixed ansifixed oemfixed
Macintosh:
system application
COMPATIBILITY WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS
In prior versions of perl/Tk the $widget->Font method was a perl
wrapper on the original ``[4] X-font names (XLFD)'' style as described above
(which was the only form supported by versions of core tk prior to version
tk8.0).
This module is provided in its original form (it has just been renamed)
via:
use Tk::X11Font;
I<$widget>-E<gt>B<X11Font>(...)
However the methods of the old scheme have been mimiced as closely as possible
with the new scheme. It is intended that code should work without modification,
except for the case of using :
@names = $font->Name;
i.e. the Name method in an array/list context. This now returns one element
on all platforms (as it did on Win32), while previously on X systems it returned
a list of fonts that matched an under-specified pattern.
Briefly the methods supported for compatibilty are as follows:
$newfont = $font->Clone(-option=>value, ...>?)
Returns a new font object $newfont related to the original $font by
changing the values of the specified -options.
$font->Family - maps to -family
$font->Weight - maps to -weight
$font->Slant - maps to -slant
$font->Pixel and Point - map to -size
New code should use $font->configure to achieve same effect as last
four items above.
Are all ignored if set, and return '*' if queried.
$font->Name
Returns the name of a named font, or a string representation of an unnamed
font. Using $font in a scalar context does the same. Note this is distinctly
different from behaviour of X11Font's Name in
a list context.
$font->Pattern
Returns a XLFD string for the font based on actual values, and some heuristics
to map Tk's forms to the ``standard'' X conventions.
