Family

Family specifies the font family of the  displayed or input to window elements, containers, and widgets.

Theme property filter XML code:

Possible values: depend on the fonts installed on the user's computer

Default value:

specified by SystemTheme.css

Influence and behavior:

This property sets the font of all window and form elements:

default runtime appearance
property set in theme
resulting runtime appearance

 

By setting the font family to the whole application (= without filters), you change the appearance of window elements like toolbar buttons or messages invoked by fgl_winmessage().

 

Some font families are not available for all locales or scripts:

 

At runtime, you can use css styles to change the font family for the element:

 

At runtime, you can use ui method - <var>.Family() - to change the font family for form elements.

For this purpose, you must

• define a variable of the ui.Font data type,
• apply <var>.Family() to this variable, and

• apply the font to the form element by the <var>.setFont() method:

  DEFINE fnt ui.Font

  ...

  LET fnt.Family=["Cambria"]

  ...

  CALL lb.SetFont(fnt)

You can find examples of how to use the <var>.Family() method here and in the example program.