Version: 3.1.0
font.h File Reference

Classes

class  wxFontInfo
 This class is a helper used for wxFont creation using named parameter idiom: it allows to specify various wxFont attributes using the chained calls to its clearly named methods instead of passing them in the fixed order to wxFont constructors. More...
 
class  wxFont
 A font is an object which determines the appearance of text. More...
 
class  wxFontList
 A font list is a list containing all fonts which have been created. More...
 

Enumerations

enum  wxFontFamily {
  wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT = wxDEFAULT,
  wxFONTFAMILY_DECORATIVE = wxDECORATIVE,
  wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN = wxROMAN,
  wxFONTFAMILY_SCRIPT = wxSCRIPT,
  wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS = wxSWISS,
  wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN = wxMODERN,
  wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE = wxTELETYPE,
  wxFONTFAMILY_MAX,
  wxFONTFAMILY_UNKNOWN = wxFONTFAMILY_MAX
}
 Standard font families: these are used mainly during wxFont creation to specify the generic properties of the font without hardcoding in the sources a specific face name. More...
 
enum  wxFontStyle {
  wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL = wxNORMAL,
  wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC = wxITALIC,
  wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT = wxSLANT,
  wxFONTSTYLE_MAX
}
 Font styles. More...
 
enum  wxFontWeight {
  wxFONTWEIGHT_NORMAL = wxNORMAL,
  wxFONTWEIGHT_LIGHT = wxLIGHT,
  wxFONTWEIGHT_BOLD = wxBOLD,
  wxFONTWEIGHT_MAX
}
 Font weights. More...
 
enum  wxFontSymbolicSize {
  wxFONTSIZE_XX_SMALL = -3,
  wxFONTSIZE_X_SMALL,
  wxFONTSIZE_SMALL,
  wxFONTSIZE_MEDIUM,
  wxFONTSIZE_LARGE,
  wxFONTSIZE_X_LARGE,
  wxFONTSIZE_XX_LARGE
}
 Symbolic font sizes. More...
 
enum  wxFontFlag {
  wxFONTFLAG_DEFAULT = 0,
  wxFONTFLAG_ITALIC = 1 << 0,
  wxFONTFLAG_SLANT = 1 << 1,
  wxFONTFLAG_LIGHT = 1 << 2,
  wxFONTFLAG_BOLD = 1 << 3,
  wxFONTFLAG_ANTIALIASED = 1 << 4,
  wxFONTFLAG_NOT_ANTIALIASED = 1 << 5,
  wxFONTFLAG_UNDERLINED = 1 << 6,
  wxFONTFLAG_STRIKETHROUGH = 1 << 7,
  wxFONTFLAG_MASK
}
 The font flag bits for the new font ctor accepting one combined flags word. More...
 
enum  wxFontEncoding {
  wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM = -1,
  wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_2,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_3,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_4,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_5,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_6,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_7,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_8,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_9,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_10,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_11,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_12,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_13,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_14,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_15,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_MAX,
  wxFONTENCODING_KOI8,
  wxFONTENCODING_KOI8_U,
  wxFONTENCODING_ALTERNATIVE,
  wxFONTENCODING_BULGARIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP437,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP850,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP852,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP855,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP866,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP874,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP932,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP936,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP949,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP950,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1250,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1251,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1252,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1253,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1254,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1255,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1256,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1257,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1258,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP1361,
  wxFONTENCODING_CP12_MAX,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF7,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF8,
  wxFONTENCODING_EUC_JP,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF16BE,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF16LE,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF32BE,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF32LE,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACROMAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACJAPANESE,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESETRAD,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACKOREAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACARABIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACHEBREW,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACGREEK,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCYRILLIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACDEVANAGARI,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACGURMUKHI,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACGUJARATI,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACORIYA,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACBENGALI,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACTAMIL,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACTELUGU,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACKANNADA,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACMALAJALAM,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACSINHALESE,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACBURMESE,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACKHMER,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACTHAI,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACLAOTIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACGEORGIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACARMENIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESESIMP,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACTIBETAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACMONGOLIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACETHIOPIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCENTRALEUR,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACVIATNAMESE,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACARABICEXT,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACSYMBOL,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACDINGBATS,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACTURKISH,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCROATIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACICELANDIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACROMANIAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACCELTIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACGAELIC,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACKEYBOARD,
  wxFONTENCODING_ISO2022_JP,
  wxFONTENCODING_MAX,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACMIN = wxFONTENCODING_MACROMAN,
  wxFONTENCODING_MACMAX = wxFONTENCODING_MACKEYBOARD,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF16,
  wxFONTENCODING_UTF32,
  wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE,
  wxFONTENCODING_GB2312 = wxFONTENCODING_CP936,
  wxFONTENCODING_BIG5 = wxFONTENCODING_CP950,
  wxFONTENCODING_SHIFT_JIS = wxFONTENCODING_CP932,
  wxFONTENCODING_EUC_KR = wxFONTENCODING_CP949,
  wxFONTENCODING_JOHAB = wxFONTENCODING_CP1361,
  wxFONTENCODING_VIETNAMESE = wxFONTENCODING_CP1258
}
 Font encodings. More...
 

Functions

bool wxFromString (const wxString &string, wxFont *font)
 Converts string to a wxFont best represented by the given string. More...
 
wxString wxToString (const wxFont &font)
 Converts the given wxFont into a string. More...
 

Variables

wxFont wxNullFont
 An empty wxFont. More...
 
wxFontwxNORMAL_FONT
 Equivalent to wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT). More...
 
wxFontwxSMALL_FONT
 A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS family and 2 points smaller than wxNORMAL_FONT. More...
 
wxFontwxITALIC_FONT
 A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN family and wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC style and of the same size of wxNORMAL_FONT. More...
 
wxFontwxSWISS_FONT
 A font identic to wxNORMAL_FONT except for the family used which is wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS. More...
 
wxFontListwxTheFontList
 The global wxFontList instance. More...
 

Enumeration Type Documentation

Font encodings.

See wxFont::SetEncoding().

Enumerator
wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM 

Default system encoding.

Default system encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT 

Default application encoding: this is the encoding set by calls to wxFont::SetDefaultEncoding().

Initially, the default application encoding is the same as default system encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1 

West European (Latin1)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_2 

Central and East European (Latin2)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_3 

Esperanto (Latin3)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_4 

Baltic (old) (Latin4)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_5 

Cyrillic.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_6 

Arabic.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_7 

Greek.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_8 

Hebrew.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_9 

Turkish (Latin5)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_10 

Variation of Latin4 (Latin6)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_11 

Thai.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_12 

doesn't exist currently, but put it here anyhow to make all ISO8859 consecutive numbers

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_13 

Baltic (Latin7)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_14 

Latin8.

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_15 

Latin9 (a.k.a. Latin0, includes euro)

wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_MAX 
wxFONTENCODING_KOI8 

KOI8 Russian.

wxFONTENCODING_KOI8_U 

KOI8 Ukrainian.

wxFONTENCODING_ALTERNATIVE 

same as MS-DOS CP866

wxFONTENCODING_BULGARIAN 

used under Linux in Bulgaria

wxFONTENCODING_CP437 

original MS-DOS codepage

wxFONTENCODING_CP850 

CP437 merged with Latin1.

wxFONTENCODING_CP852 

CP437 merged with Latin2.

wxFONTENCODING_CP855 

another cyrillic encoding

wxFONTENCODING_CP866 

and another one

wxFONTENCODING_CP874 

WinThai.

wxFONTENCODING_CP932 

Japanese (shift-JIS)

wxFONTENCODING_CP936 

Chinese simplified (GB)

wxFONTENCODING_CP949 

Korean (Hangul charset)

wxFONTENCODING_CP950 

Chinese (traditional - Big5)

wxFONTENCODING_CP1250 

WinLatin2.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1251 

WinCyrillic.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1252 

WinLatin1.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1253 

WinGreek (8859-7)

wxFONTENCODING_CP1254 

WinTurkish.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1255 

WinHebrew.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1256 

WinArabic.

wxFONTENCODING_CP1257 

WinBaltic (same as Latin 7)

wxFONTENCODING_CP1258 

WinVietnamese (since 2.9.4)

wxFONTENCODING_CP1361 

Johab Korean character set (since 2.9.4)

wxFONTENCODING_CP12_MAX 
wxFONTENCODING_UTF7 

UTF-7 Unicode encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_UTF8 

UTF-8 Unicode encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_EUC_JP 

Extended Unix Codepage for Japanese.

wxFONTENCODING_UTF16BE 

UTF-16 Big Endian Unicode encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_UTF16LE 

UTF-16 Little Endian Unicode encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_UTF32BE 

UTF-32 Big Endian Unicode encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_UTF32LE 
wxFONTENCODING_MACROMAN 

the standard mac encodings

wxFONTENCODING_MACJAPANESE 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESETRAD 
wxFONTENCODING_MACKOREAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACARABIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACHEBREW 
wxFONTENCODING_MACGREEK 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCYRILLIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACDEVANAGARI 
wxFONTENCODING_MACGURMUKHI 
wxFONTENCODING_MACGUJARATI 
wxFONTENCODING_MACORIYA 
wxFONTENCODING_MACBENGALI 
wxFONTENCODING_MACTAMIL 
wxFONTENCODING_MACTELUGU 
wxFONTENCODING_MACKANNADA 
wxFONTENCODING_MACMALAJALAM 
wxFONTENCODING_MACSINHALESE 
wxFONTENCODING_MACBURMESE 
wxFONTENCODING_MACKHMER 
wxFONTENCODING_MACTHAI 
wxFONTENCODING_MACLAOTIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACGEORGIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACARMENIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESESIMP 
wxFONTENCODING_MACTIBETAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACMONGOLIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACETHIOPIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCENTRALEUR 
wxFONTENCODING_MACVIATNAMESE 
wxFONTENCODING_MACARABICEXT 
wxFONTENCODING_MACSYMBOL 
wxFONTENCODING_MACDINGBATS 
wxFONTENCODING_MACTURKISH 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCROATIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACICELANDIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACROMANIAN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACCELTIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACGAELIC 
wxFONTENCODING_MACKEYBOARD 
wxFONTENCODING_ISO2022_JP 

ISO-2022-JP JIS encoding.

wxFONTENCODING_MAX 

highest enumerated encoding value

wxFONTENCODING_MACMIN 
wxFONTENCODING_MACMAX 
wxFONTENCODING_UTF16 

native UTF-16

wxFONTENCODING_UTF32 

native UTF-32

wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE 

Alias for the native Unicode encoding on this platform (this is used by wxEncodingConverter and wxUTFFile only for now)

wxFONTENCODING_GB2312 

Simplified Chinese.

wxFONTENCODING_BIG5 

Traditional Chinese.

wxFONTENCODING_SHIFT_JIS 

Shift JIS.

wxFONTENCODING_EUC_KR 

Korean.

wxFONTENCODING_JOHAB 

Korean Johab (since 2.9.4)

wxFONTENCODING_VIETNAMESE 

Vietnamese (since 2.9.4)

Standard font families: these are used mainly during wxFont creation to specify the generic properties of the font without hardcoding in the sources a specific face name.

wxFontFamily thus allows to group the font face names of fonts with similar properties. Most wxWidgets ports use lists of fonts for each font family inspired by the data taken from http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family.

Enumerator
wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT 

Chooses a default font.

wxFONTFAMILY_DECORATIVE 

A decorative font.

wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN 

A formal, serif font.

wxFONTFAMILY_SCRIPT 

A handwriting font.

wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS 

A sans-serif font.

wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN 

A fixed pitch font.

Note that wxFont currently does not make distinctions between wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN and wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE.

wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE 

A teletype (i.e. monospaced) font.

Monospace fonts have a fixed width like typewriters and often have strong angular or block serifs. Monospace font faces are often used code samples and have a simple, functional font style. See also wxFont::IsFixedWidth() for an easy way to test for monospace property.

wxFONTFAMILY_MAX 
wxFONTFAMILY_UNKNOWN 

Invalid font family value, returned by wxFont::GetFamily() when the font is invalid for example.

enum wxFontFlag

The font flag bits for the new font ctor accepting one combined flags word.

Enumerator
wxFONTFLAG_DEFAULT 

no special flags: font with default weight/slant/anti-aliasing

wxFONTFLAG_ITALIC 

slant flags (default: no slant)

wxFONTFLAG_SLANT 
wxFONTFLAG_LIGHT 

weight flags (default: medium)

wxFONTFLAG_BOLD 
wxFONTFLAG_ANTIALIASED 

anti-aliasing flag: force on or off (default: the current system default)

wxFONTFLAG_NOT_ANTIALIASED 
wxFONTFLAG_UNDERLINED 

Underlined style (not underlined by default).

wxFONTFLAG_STRIKETHROUGH 

Strike-through style (implemented in MSW, GTK, and wxOSX)

wxFONTFLAG_MASK 

the mask of all currently used flags

Font styles.

Enumerator
wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL 

The font is drawn without slant.

wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC 

The font is slanted in an italic style.

wxFONTSTYLE_SLANT 

The font is slanted, but in a roman style.

Note that under wxMSW this style is the same as wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC.

wxFONTSTYLE_MAX 

Symbolic font sizes.

The elements of this enum correspond to CSS absolute size specifications, see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-size-props

See also
wxFont::SetSymbolicSize()
Since
2.9.2
Enumerator
wxFONTSIZE_XX_SMALL 

Extra small.

wxFONTSIZE_X_SMALL 

Very small.

wxFONTSIZE_SMALL 

Small.

wxFONTSIZE_MEDIUM 

Normal.

wxFONTSIZE_LARGE 

Large.

wxFONTSIZE_X_LARGE 

Very large.

wxFONTSIZE_XX_LARGE 

Extra large.

Font weights.

Enumerator
wxFONTWEIGHT_NORMAL 

Normal font.

wxFONTWEIGHT_LIGHT 

Light font.

wxFONTWEIGHT_BOLD 

Bold font.

wxFONTWEIGHT_MAX 

Variable Documentation

wxFont* wxITALIC_FONT

A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN family and wxFONTSTYLE_ITALIC style and of the same size of wxNORMAL_FONT.

wxFont* wxNORMAL_FONT

Equivalent to wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT).

See also
wxSystemSettings
wxFont wxNullFont

An empty wxFont.

wxFont* wxSMALL_FONT

A font using the wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS family and 2 points smaller than wxNORMAL_FONT.

wxFont* wxSWISS_FONT

A font identic to wxNORMAL_FONT except for the family used which is wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS.

wxFontList* wxTheFontList

The global wxFontList instance.