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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


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.