how to set font and size for my program? Topic is solved

[Owyn]

becouse it uses system size and font and on systems with big fonts GUI becomes a mess

[jfouche]

Each graphical control (text control, combo box, frame, ...) inherit from wxWindow. This class contains a SetFont method. You just have to create your wxFont and applied it :

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wxFont myFont(12, wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN, wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, wxFONTWEIGHT_BOLD);
myWindow->SetFont(myFont);

[Owyn]

doesn't work =\

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bool MyApp::OnInit()
{
    if ( !wxApp::OnInit() )
        return false;
	setlocale( LC_NUMERIC, "English" );
	MyFrame *frame = new MyFrame(NULL, _T("My Programs title"), 350, 350, 500, 400);

    wxFont myFont(12, wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN, wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL, wxFONTWEIGHT_BOLD);
    frame->SetFont(myFont);

    frame->Show(true);
    return true;
}

- doesn't change anything

and if i place it in frame constructor MyFrame::MyFrame() it crashes

[jfouche]

What does contain your frame ?
Do you draw inside ? If you draw with a DC, the documentation tolds you the given font will not be used. You must use wxDC::SetFont() instead.
I suggest you to try with a simple wxStaticText in your frame, and see if it's OK. If not, post some code.

[Owyn]

What does contain your frame ?
Do you draw inside ? If you draw with a DC, the documentation tolds you the given font will not be used. You must use wxDC::SetFont() instead.
I suggest you to try with a simple wxStaticText in your frame, and see if it's OK. If not, post some code.

how do you use wxDC::SetFont() ? i gives me error "illegal call of non-static member function"

and my frame do not draw, just a panel with text and checkboxes

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MyFrame::MyFrame(wxFrame *frame, wxChar * title, int x, int y, int w, int h)
       : wxFrame(frame, wxID_ANY, title, wxPoint(x, y), wxSize(w, h))
{
	Connect(wxEVT_CLOSE_WINDOW, wxCloseEventHandler(Veto::OnClose));

    SetIcon(wxICON(sample));

    wxMenu *fileMenu = new wxMenu;
    wxMenu *helpMenu = new wxMenu;

    helpMenu->Append(Minimal_About, "&About...\tF1", "Show about dialog");
    fileMenu->Append(Minimal_Quit, "E&xit\tAlt-X", "Quit this program");
    wxMenuBar *menuBar = new wxMenuBar();
    menuBar->Append(fileMenu, "&File");
    menuBar->Append(helpMenu, "&Help");
    SetMenuBar(menuBar);

    CreateStatusBar(2);
    SetStatusText("Status!");

    wxPanel *panel = new wxPanel(this, wxID_ANY, wxPoint(0, 0), wxSize(400, 200), wxTAB_TRAVERSAL);

    wxCheckBox box_box = new wxCheckBox( panel, ID_SEEDER, wxT("my checkbox"), wxPoint(100, 100), wxDefaultSize, 0 );
    ...

[jfouche]

Does your close event works ? I suggest you to do :

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Connect(wxEVT_CLOSE_WINDOW, wxCloseEventHandler(MyFrame::OnClose), NULL, this);

...

void MyFrame::OnClose(wxCloseEvent& event)
{
   Destroy();
}

For your pb, does the following code works ?

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box_box->SetFont(myFont); // As defined before

For the wxDC::SetFont(...), it's usefull if you manage the paint event (but it's not the case for you). You must create a DC and call the SetFont method on the created DC (but as I said, do not use it if you don't need to paint).

[Owyn]

Does your close event works ?

Yes.

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box_box->SetFont(myFont);

worked.

and i finally found a way, i did ->SetFont on the panel

panel->SetFont(MyFont);

[jfouche]

Next time, accept the post that helped you, not your own.

[Auria]

Next time, accept the post that helped you, not your own.

Fixed