Re: Global Font Change

FROM : Chris Schmitt
DATE : Thu Jan 31 22:27:46 2008

So if I wanted to change the font size of a label I would have to do 
programatically, or write my own sub class?  There is no way in IB to 
set the label to something like bold?

I will check out the control size, that might help me out for what I 
am thinking.

Thanks for all your help!!

On Jan 31, 2008, at 4:16 PM, j o a r wrote:

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

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> 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
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>