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Font and text color [message #450495]

Mon, 14 February 2005 12:54

Arnaud

Messages: 60
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi !

I use a custom propertydescriptor in my rcp app which let me change the
font of a button or label. It pops up a FontDialog where I can choose
which font I want. It works great except that only the type, height and
style are taken in account. The color of the text is not applied (you
know, in Windows XP font dialog, you can pick up a color for the text).
And if I reopen the Font dialog, the color I choosed later isn't
remembered, it always go back to black.

How can you make use of the color selected in the font dialog ?

TIA

--
Arnaud

PS : another question : whith labels I can choose back/foreground, but
whith buttons it doesn't seem to be taken in account (for example, the
background doesn't paint to yellow if I choose this color in my Color
dialog). Is it a normal behaviour of SWT.Button ?

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Re: Font and text color [message #450501 is a reply to message #450495]

Mon, 14 February 2005 16:08

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You need to use FontDialog.getRGB() and FontDialog.setRGB(RGB) since colour
is not included within a Font or FontData.

Setting the background Color of a Button does not work on win32 due to a
platform limitation, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36055
..

Grant

"Arnaud" <no@mail.please> wrote in message
news:cuq71e$pht$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi !
>
> I use a custom propertydescriptor in my rcp app which let me change the
> font of a button or label. It pops up a FontDialog where I can choose
> which font I want. It works great except that only the type, height and
> style are taken in account. The color of the text is not applied (you
> know, in Windows XP font dialog, you can pick up a color for the text).
> And if I reopen the Font dialog, the color I choosed later isn't
> remembered, it always go back to black.
>
> How can you make use of the color selected in the font dialog ?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
> PS : another question : whith labels I can choose back/foreground, but
> whith buttons it doesn't seem to be taken in account (for example, the
> background doesn't paint to yellow if I choose this color in my Color
> dialog). Is it a normal behaviour of SWT.Button ?

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