To choose a specific font for the text assigned to a dialog element (for example, the
caption on a push button control)
Use the dialog element's attributes window.
Choose the push button control to the right of the Font entry. A dialog box opens.
From the list of available fonts, select a font type, for example Times New Roman.
From the list of styles available for the font type, select a font style, for example italics.
From the list of sizes available for the font type and style, select a font size, for example 10. A sample of your selected font will be displayed.
To set it: Close the attributes window.
Note
When adding centered or right-aligned text in a dialog element, the following minimum
heights of the dialog element apply (RECTANGLE-H attribute):
4-point font - height of 8; 8-point - 22; 12-point - 24.
Additionally, the dialog
editor allows selecting a font for the whole dialog in the dialog attributes
window. This font is defined in the FONT-STRING attribute and is valid for the
dialog and each of its children. A major advantage of selecting a font for the whole dialog
is that if the chosen font is too large or too small for the dialog layout, you change the
FONT-STRING attribute once instead of going
through all children of the dialog.
Initially, the FONT-STRING attribute 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.
