Re: NSFont & bold

FROM : Henry McGilton
DATE : Thu Apr 21 19:39:59 2005

On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Luc Vandal wrote:

> It seems that it's not possible to set a font as bold. Is there a way
> to do this or fonts handling is very different compared to Windows?


If you want a bold (or italic, or both) font, you ask for
a bold (or italic, or both) font:

    [NSFont fontWithName: (NSString *)fontName  size:(float)fontSize];

So in this case, you would write:

    NSFont  myFont = [NSFont fontWithName: @"Optima-Bold"  size: 10];

to get a ten-point Optima-Bold font.

You can also add or remove 'traits' using NSFontManager.  Read
the 'Constants' section of NSFontManager, and look at addFontTrait:,
removeFontTrait:, convertFont:toHaveTrait, convertFont:toNotHaveTrait:
methods.

    Cheers,
       ........  Henry


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