lcdui.font

lcdui.font
	Hecl Java ME MIDP2.0 Commands

Name

lcdui.font — Font information and manipulation command.

Synopsis

Description

The lcdui.font command is used to fetch information about fonts. For an in-depth look at the Java code that this command is based on, see: javax.microedition.lcdui.Font

It accepts several subcommands:

names: Returns a list of all the available fonts.
fontname charwidth string: Returns the width, in pixels, of the given characters. Takes optional offset and length parameters.
fontname stringwidth string: Returns the width, in pixels, of the given string. Takes optional offset and length parameters.
fontname cget -option: Used to fetch information about a font. Allowed options are as follows:
- -face: One of "system", "proportional", or "monospace".
- -size: One of "small", "medium" or "large".
- -plain: Returns a 1 if the font is "plain" - not bold, underlined or italic, or 0 if it isn't.
- -bold: Returns 1 or 0 if the font is bold or not.
- -italic: Returns 1 or 0 if the font is italic or not.
- -underlined: Returns 1 or 0 if the font is underlined or not.
- -height: Returns the standard height of a line of text in this font, in pixels.
- -baselineposition: Returns the distance in pixels from the top of the text to the text's baseline.

Example

set form [lcdui.form -title "Font examples"]

$form setcurrent

foreach f [sort [lcdui.font names]] {
    set s [lcdui.stringitem -text $f]
    $s configure -font $f
    $form append $s
}

Live example: http://www.heclbuilder.com/scripts/show/147


`$eventcmd`		lcdui.form