Font property group

The group of font properties is used to specify font characteristics of container and widget text as well as the text of some window elements.

Font characteristics can be changed in Lycia Theme Designer and via css styles:

Theme property filter XML code:

CSS property code:

Inheritance diagram:

Associated containers, widgets and theme elements:

BorderPanel CoordPanel GridPanel GroupBox StackPanel ScrollViewer TabPage Table TreeTable

BlobViewer Browser Button Calendar Canvas CheckBox ComboBox FunctionField Label MenuGroup MenuCommand

ProgressBar RadioGroup Slider Spinner TextArea TextField Toolbar ToolbarButton TimeEditField WebComponent

Influence and behavior:

In Lycia Theme Designer, there are six separated properties which specify different font characteristics:

New Font

Family

Bold  

Italic

Underline

Font Size

Here all font properties added:

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

You can find out how to set each property in its page ↑.

 

At runtime, you can use css styles to change the element's background:

Regardless of whether you used Lycia Theme Designer or css, you get this at runtime (for all variants, font characteristics were specified for a widget with the definite id):

 

At runtime, you can use ui methods to change fonts used in form elements - containers, widgets, toolbars, and menubars.

For this purpose, you must create a variable of the ui.Font data type and apply these methods:

<var>.Family()

<var>.FontSize()

<var>.Bold()

<var>.Italic()

<var>.Underline()

4gl code sample	MAIN DEFINE lb ui.Label DEFINE fnt ui.Font OPEN WINDOW w WITH FORM "font" ATTRIBUTE(BORDER)   LET lb = ui.Label.ForName("lb")   LET fnt.Family = ["Cambria"]   LET fnt.Bold = TRUE   LET fnt.Italic = FALSE   LET fnt.Underline = FALSE   LET fnt.FontSize = 25   CALL lb.SetFont(fnt) CALL fgl_getkey() END MAIN
default appearance (in the form)
runtime appearance