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Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition
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Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition

by Ken Jones, Brent Welch
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
20h 55m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 42. Fonts and Text Attributes

This chapter describes the naming conventions for fonts. Tk has a font object that you can dynamically configure and associate with widgets. This chapter also describes other text-related attributes such as justification, anchoring, and geometry gridding.

Fonts describe how characters look on the screen. Tk widgets like buttons, labels, and listboxes have a font attribute that determines which font they use to display their text. The text widget has font attributes on tags that are applied to different regions of text. Tk has a platform-independent way to name fonts (e.g., times 12 bold), plus it gracefully handles missing fonts. You can define named font objects and then associate those with widgets and text ...

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