Re: Global Font Change

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Thu Jan 31 22:16:27 2008

On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Chris Schmitt wrote:

> How do I change the font that is used for all NSLabels, 
> NSTextFields, etc..? Basically I want to make the default font 
> smaller for all text within my application, not the menu bar or 
> anything outside my application, just my views, and windows..  Is 
> this done through skinning or is this a global property that can be 
> set?



There is no global switch to get what you're asking for, and typically 
that's not what you want either (you might want to have *most* of your 
controls in one particular size, but very rarely all of them). You, 
the programmer or interface designer, will have to manually make sure 
that all controls in your interface is using the font size you want.

You might want to look at the documentation for NSControlSize. This is 
a way to easily make controls appear at one of a predefined set of 
sizes. You can set this property from Interface Builder or in code. If 
you set it from code, you might also have to set the font size 
separately (I don't remember, and don't think, that it's updated 
automatically for you).

j o a r