Sets the default font throughout a dialog. The default font must be set as a parameter while the dialog is being created with PROCESS GUI action ADD. If a dialog element inside the dialog contains text with no particular font assigned to it, this text will be displayed in the font specified by FONT-STRING. When you assign a FONT-STRING to a dialog, a font control is created internally, with the dialog being the parent of the font control. The font's handle can be queried from the dialog's FONT-HANDLE attribute.
Note:
If the FONT-STRING attribute has created fonts that are too large or
too small for the dialog window layout, you can use this attribute to resize
all fonts evenly throughout the dialog.
| Applies to | Dialog (all types). |
|---|---|
| Data Type | A253 |
| Default Value | System font |
| Possible Values | Encoded string which can be edited in the dialog editor's dialog attributes window. Font strings consist of several fields separated by a delimiter character. |
The default delimiter character is the slash "/".
Possible delimiter characters are:
"/", ",", "#", ":", ";", "|", "@", "$", "%", "&".
1. The font's face name.
2. The font style: Empty, or equivalently, the word "Regular", or a combination of the keywords "Bold", "Italic", "Strikeout", and "Underlined", separated by blanks.
3. The font size: Either the size in points (here, an optional decimal point followed by one digit is allowed), or the size as width x height. A positive value indicates character size, a negative value indicates cell size. A zero indicates that the system should choose a value for the field. The width x height notation allows for better portability across screen resolutions.
4. Character set information. A combination of keywords, one from each of the following subgroups, separated by blanks:
| Character sets: | ANSI or SYMBOL or SHIFTJIS or OEM. |
|---|---|
| Character sets: | ANSI or SYMBOL or SHIFTJIS or OEM. |
| Fixed or variable-width font: | FIXED or VARIABLE. |
| Font family: | ROMAN or SCRIPT or SWISS or MODERN or DECORATIVE. |
| Print quality: | DRAFT or PROOF. |
5. A character indicating the platform. For fonts selected under windows, this character is "W".
6. Platform-dependent field. For Windows, this is the clipping precision.
7. Platform-dependent field. For Windows, this is the output precision.
/Arial/Bold/0 x -19/ ANSI VARIABLE SWISSDRAFT/W/2/0/
