Font Dialog

Creating the Dialog

Create a Font Dialog by calling dialog.fontDialog with one required argument and one optional argument as shown in the following table:

Argument	Data Type/Notes
self	the window (background) that is the parent for the dialog
OPTIONAL font name	Python dictionary containing a complete font description to be used as the default starting point for the dialog. See description of return value of "font" in table below for details. Kevin - This appears not to be implemented? If it is, it doesn't seem to work as I've described it here.

Example:

Above dialog was created with this line of code:

 result = dialog.fontDialog(self)

Interacting With the Dialog

The fontDialog component returns three values, stored as elements of the Python dictionary called "results" returned by all PythonCard dialogs. These results are as shown in the following table.

Name of value	Description
accepted	1 = user clicked OK 0 = user clicked Cancel
color	Tuple of three elements containing the red, blue, and green values representing the color (i.e., RGB format)
font	Python dictionary object with keys style, faceName, family, and size. All elements of dictionary are strings except for size, which is an integer.

Example:

The sample dialog shown at the top of this page returns the following results:

accepted: 1
Color: (0, 0, 0)
Font: {'style': 'bold', 'faceName': 'Arial', 'family': 'sansSerif', 'size': 12}