FaceName property for PowerScript controls
Controls
Controls that can display text
Description
The FaceName property specifies the typeface used for text
in the control. For tab controls, the property specifies the typeface
for text labels on tabs.
The typefaces available for your use are those installed on
your system. Keep in mind that the fonts available to you may not
be available where you deploy your application.
If you plan to deploy the application as a .NET Windows Forms
application and you use a bitmap (screen) font such as MS Sans Serif
instead of a True Type font, make sure you select a predefined font
size from the TextSize drop–down list. PowerBuilder and
.NET use different functions (CreateFontDirect and GdipCreateFont)
to render bitmap fonts, and they may display larger in the .NET
application than in the development environment or a standard PowerBuilder
application. For example, text that uses the MS Sans Serif typeface
and the undefined text size 16 looks the same as size 14 in PowerBuilder,
but looks larger in .NET.
Usage
This property does not work in MonthCalendar controls on the
Microsoft Vista operating system.
In a painter
To set the typeface of text in a control:
-
Select a typeface from the FaceName list
box on the Font tab page of the control’s Properties view.
To set the typeface of text objects in a graph
control:
-
Display the Text tab page of the graph
control’s Properties view. -
Select the desired text object from the Text Object
list box. -
Select a typeface from the FaceName list box.
In scripts
The FaceName property takes a string value. The following
example sets the font for text labels on tab pages of a tab control
to the Arial typeface:
|
1 |
tab_1.FaceName = "Arial" |