Font Selection
Use the
Fonts window to specify the fonts you want to apply to a part or set of parts. After you have selected the font style, the mouse pointer changes and you can then select the part or parts you want to apply the new font to.
Fields
Foundry
Font maker
Family
Typeface
Charset
Character set
Style
Font weight and type
Ext. Style
Font style
Size
Font size
Sample
Display of selected font
Information about whether the font selected is a scaled font or a bitmap font appears at the bottom of the window.
Runtime considerations
Because different machines can have different fonts installed, when a machine running a VA Smalltalk application is missing a font requested by VA Smalltalk, the default system font for that machine is used.
Cross-platform considerations
If you are designing your application to run on multiple platforms, consider the following:
•You need to ensure that all machines that run your VA Smalltalk application have the fonts you select installed.
•If you create an application that uses both single-byte character set (SBCS) data as well as double-byte character set (DBCS) data, you need to be careful with which fonts you specify. Fonts that might work on single-byte displays, might be invisible on double-byte displays.
Menu-bar choices
Select OK to use the font specified.
Select Default to change a selected part to its default font.
Tasks
Last modified date: 09/18/2019