Re: default font for GUI on Windows systems

[Richard Crozier]

On 29/03/13 17:37, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 03/29/2013 01:16 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
> > I will have a look later in the QtOctave sources to see how it was done.
> > I will report this, and if you're prepared to wait for some time I will
> > eventually produce a changeset, but I'm up to my eyeballs with other
> > stuff at the min unfortunately.
>
> OK.  If you can just point to what needs to be done it would help and 
> maybe I can do it.  A changeset would just be a huge bonus.
>
> jwe

Ok, adding an application font is as simple as adding something like the 
following somewhere in the appropriate place:

// Add the Inconsolata font for the editor
QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont (QDir::home().path() + 
QDir::separator() + "fonts/Inconsolata.otf");


In QtOctave this was done in main.cpp, when the application was loading. 
Once added it can be used like any other font. In QtOctave the fonts 
were placed in a fonts subdirectory, but you can put them anywhere you 
like as long as you can tell the application where that is at runtime.

Not so sure about fall backs,still looking for that.

Richard

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