Label Tutorial - Accessing Editor?

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So I’m going through the JUCE tutorial and am stuck at the last part of The Label Class (under Interface Design)

Other customisations can be achieved by implementing the Label::onEditorShow helper object. For example, you could make the text italic when being edited like this:

inputText.onEditorShow = [this]
{
auto editorFont = editor.getFont();
editorFont.setItalic (true);
editor.setFont (editorFont);
};

The instruction asks to access a member variable named “editor” which exists in Juce_Label.h but understandably I’m getting an error because it is a private member variable.

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Is there a way to get access to this editor variable? I’ve followed the tutorial exactly to the best of my abilities. This is probably a super basic question to ask but I am new to JUCE and any help would be much appreciated.

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if that’s the Label’s textEditor, you want to call label.getCurrentTextEditor()

Assuming you have Label inputText; (I didn’t look at the tutorial)
You’d customize the label’s text editor’s font when it’s being edited like this:

Label inputText;
inputText.onEditorShow = [&inputText]()
{
    auto editorFont = inputText.getCurrentTextEditor()->getFont();
    editorFont.setItalic(true);
    inputText.getCurrentTextEditor()->setFont(editorFont);
};

edit: I looked at the tutorial. It needs correcting. https://docs.juce.com/master/tutorial_label.html
cc: @jules @t0m @ed95

3

That did the trick! getCurrentTextEditor()->getFont() and setFont() works great. Thanks for replying.

And yeah I agree, its worth correcting the tutorial for when others come across this part.

4

Yep, will get that sorted out. Thanks!