NAME

Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts

SYNOPSIS

use Tk::Font;

$font = $widget->Font(foundry => 'adobe',
                      family  => 'times',
                      point   => 120
                     );

$font = $widget->Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*');

DESCRIPTION

This module can be use to interrogate the X server what fonts are
avaliable.

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

AUTHOR

Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>

HISTORY

11-Jan-96 Initial version

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.