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Title: Changing the font of your LW Editor window
ID: 10024
| Product: All Version: All OS: all platforms | |
| Description: How do I change the font of my Editor window? The LispWorks editor and some other tools display text in a CAPI:EDITOR-PANE. This and its subclasses must use a fixed width font to display text correctly. On Windows, instances of CAPI:EDITOR-PANE and its subclasses use the font via the font alias :EDITOR-PANE-DEFAULT-FONT. You can change this default setting via (gp:define-font-alias :editor-pane-default-font (gp:make-font-description :family "courier new" :size 12)) before creating the editor window. You may need to uncheck the Reuse all tools box (choose Tools -> Options from the Podium window) for this to work properly. Users of Japanese should specify the charset, eg. (gp:define-font-alias :editor-pane-default-font (gp:make-font-description :family "FixedSys" :charset :shiftjis)) NB The above examples assume LispWorks 4.1.19+. On Motif, the X resources mechanism is used. For each CAPI class EDITOR-PANE and its subclasses COLLECTOR-PANE, ECHO-PODIUM-PANE, MAIL-PANE, LISTENER-PANE and SHELL-PANE, if the corresponding fontList resource is specified and is fixed width, this is used for instances of that class. Otherwise, they use a font via the font alias :EDITOR-PANE-DEFAULT-FONT. You can change this default as above. See the app-defaults/Lispworks file for examples of how to specify the fontList resources. You could also specify fontList resources via the :fallback-resources argument to ENV:START-ENVIRONMENT. | |
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| Reported:#6059 | |