Changing the global font

#1

Hi,

first I have to say that I’m very impressed with JUCE; I’ve successfully transferred a quite elaborate VST plugin to the JUCE framework with surprisingly little effort. So thanks for this!

There’s one thing that I can’t seem to get my head around, though: why is it so (relatively) complicated to change the fonts in an application? Say, I have a slider and a combobox. Now if I want to change the fonts in the slider’s textbox and in the combobox, do I really have to subclass lookandfeel and make custom drawslider and drawcombobox methods? There should be something like editor->setFont(…), or am I overlooking something here?

Cheers, siedschl

#2

Glad you like it!

The advantage of using a look+feel is that it lets you change the fonts for components that you don’t own - so you could change them for all the components inside, e.g. a juce-created dialog box, where those comps would otherwise be inaccessible. It also means you can set a single l+f for your whole app without having to set the fonts on every single comp you create individually. True, it’s more of a pain if you just need to tweak one item.

#3

Okay, that makes me understand the advantages of lookandfeel; but then, wouldn’t it be nice to have a lookandfeel-font that’s automatically used in all components?

#4

Yeah, that one’s been mentioned recently, I’m going to look into it when I get a chance.

#5

You can use Font::setDefaultSerifFont() method if it’s just the general used font that you want to change.

#6

Hmm… doesn’t do anything for me. First tried it in my dll project, then even in the hello world application. I must be missing something really stupid!

Also, I’ve now created a MyLookAndFeel with its own getComboBoxFont method. Then ComboBox* CB->setLookAndFeel(MyLookAndFeel), but it doesn’t use it. Is this not the right way to do it?

Sorry for these basic questions, I’m more the C type of guy… :slight_smile:

#7

Probably setDefaultSansSerifFont would be a better idea…

That sounds like the right way to do a l+f, so you’re probably just making a silly mistake somewhere.

#8

Oh yeah… never interchange * and & ! My bad… now it works like a charm!

#9

Also, I’ve now created a MyLookAndFeel with its own getComboBoxFont method

Hi!

Can anybody help me, how can I change the font size of my juce::Slider? I’ve tried almost everything (and I didn’t find “setDefaultSansSerifFont” or “getSliderFont”…)

Regards

#10

The size is probably calculated by the look and feel, so you might need to implement your own l+f to change something like that.

#11

Hello Jules!

The size is probably calculated by the look and feel, so you might
need to implement your own l+f to change something like that.

Yes, I’ve seen l+f class, but it seems to me: I can’t use this properly. I have to create large GUI elements with large font size (because stereo shutterglasses make the resolution worse). For TextButtons I found LeoLookAndFeel::drawButtonText. But how can I change font size of Slider or FileTreeComponent? LookAndFeel::drawTreeviewPlusMinusBox can help me to increase “plusminusbox”, but I didn’t find the way to increase font size of filelist.
(Sorry about my low-level english :oops:, and thank you in anticipation).

Best regards

#12

Well you’d want to look at LookAndFeel::createSliderTextBox() and drawFileBrowserRow(), I suppose.

#13

Ooops… I was so unobservant! L+F is simpler (and what is more: better) than I could imagine! :smiley:
Thank you very much!

#14