Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts
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Copyright
Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.40.1 2025-04-13 X11Font(3pm)
Description
This module can be use to interrogate the X server what fonts are
available.
History
11-Jan-96 Initial version
08-Nov-98 Renamed for Tk800.012
Methods
Foundry([$val])Family([$val])Weight([$val])Slant([$val])Swidth([$val])Adstyle([$val])Pixel([$val])Point([$val])Xres([$val])Yres([$val])Space([$val])Avgwidth([$val])Registry([$val])Encoding([$val])
Set the given field in the font name to $val if given and return the current or previous value
Name([$max])
In a list context it returns a list of all font names that match the fields given. It will return a
maximum of $max names, or 128 if $max is not given.
In a scalar contex it returns the first matching name or undef
Clone([key=>value,[...]])
Create a duplicate of the curent font object and modify the given fields
Name
Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts
Synopsis
use Tk::X11Font;
$font = $widget->X11Font(foundry => 'adobe',
family => 'times',
point => 120
);
$font = $widget->X11Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*');
