SelectFont

NAME
  SelectFont - Font selection widget

CREATION
  SelectFont pathName ?option value...?

STANDARD OPTIONS

  -background or -bg | -font

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

  -command
  | -initialcolor -nosizes
  | -parent -sampletext
  | -title -type

WIDGET COMMAND
  pathName cget option
  pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
  SelectFont::loadfont

DESCRIPTION

SelectFont provides a simple way to choose font. It can be displayed as a dialog box or as a toolbar.
Textual items in Dialog box uses -name options so they can be translated to any language. Symbolic name used are ok, cancel, font, size, style, bold, italic, underline and overstrike.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

-command
  Specifies a command to call when user select a new font when SelectFont type option is toolbar.

-initialcolor
  If specified, add an additional button that lets the user pick a color. This option is ignored if type is toolbar.

-nosizes
  If true, don't show the listbox containing valid font sizes. This option is ignored if type is toolbar.

-parent
  Parent of the Dialog. Dialog is centered in its parent. If empty, it is centered in root window.

-sampletext
  Specifies the text displayed in the preview area.

-title
  Title of the Dialog toplevel.

-type
  Specifies the type of the SelectFont widget. Must be dialog or toolbar.
  If type option is dialog, SelectFont::create directly creates the dialog, displays it and return an empty string if cancel button is pressed or if dialog is destroyed, and the selected font (and color if initialcolor) if ok button is pressed. In all cases, dialog is destroyed.
  If type option is toolbar, SelectFont::create returns the pathname of the widget created.

WIDGET COMMAND

pathName cget option
  Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the creation command.

pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
  Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. If no option is specified, returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName. If option is specified with no value, then the command returns a list describing the one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist of the value returned if no option is specified). If one or more option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies the given widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the command returns an empty string. Option may have any of the values accepted by the creation command. Read-only options are not be modified.

SelectFont::loadfont
  Load the font available in the system.