[Gambas-user] 'FontChooser.SelectedFont' is not static

[Lewis Balentine]

daaa .... seems that I am confusing FontBox with FontChooser.
gee ... I feel like a dunce.
Still have not got it to working but I am at least off on another foray 
through the possibilities :>)

On 11/28/2014 07:42 AM, Lewis Balentine wrote:
>   >> Use IDE to put the FontChooser on your form <<
> That is what I did. Then in the IDE I double-clicked on the control.
> That is what produced the sub declaration that I tried to use below.
>
> [System]
> Gambas=3.6.2
> OperatingSystem=Linux
> Kernel=3.13.0-24-generic
> Architecture=x86_64
> Distribution=Linux Mint 17 Qiana
> Desktop=MATE
> Theme=QGtk
> Language=en_US.UTF-8
> Memory=15994M
>
> [Libraries]
> Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11301.0
> Curl=libcurl.so.4.3.0
> DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.7.6
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.204.0
> GTK+3=libgtk-3.so.0.1000.8
> GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.23
> OpenGL=libGL.so.1.2.0
> Poppler=libpoppler.so.44.0.0
> Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.6
> SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
>
> On 11/28/2014 07:23 AM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>> Use IDE to put the FontChooser on your form, or instantiate it first (with
>> New command).
>>
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Lewis Balentine <lewis at ...3412...> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to be a pest but I have run into another problem I can not seem to
>>> get past and I can find no examples. I am trying to use the FontChooser
>>> control (gb.form) in a very simple form.
>>>
>>> '---------------------------------------------
>>> Public Sub FontBox1_Click()
>>>      ' Dim S As String
>>> ' Dim S As String[]
>>> ' Dim S As New String[]
>>>      ' Dim S as Font
>>>
>>>      ' S = FontChooser.SelectedFont
>>>      ' S = FontChooser.Font
>>>      ' S = FontChooser.Name
>>>      ' TextArea1.Font = FontChooser.SelectedFont
>>>      ' TextArea1.Font = FontChooser.Font
>>>
>>>       Print FontChooser.SelectedFont
>>>      Stop
>>> End
>>> '---------------------------------------------
>>> Everything that I try gives me an similar error:
>>>      'FontChooser.SelectedFont' is not static in Form 2:23.
>>>      'FontChooser.Font' is not static in Form 2:24.
>>>      'FontChooser.Name' is not static in Form 2:25.
>>>
>>> When I look at the wiki it states:
>>>      Property SelectedFont As String
>>>      Returns or sets the selected font as a string.
>>>
>>>      Property Name As String
>>>      Returns or sets the name of the control.
>>>
>>>      Property Font As Font
>>>      Returns or sets the font used to draw text in the control.
>>>
>>> I have run out of not so clever ideas.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Lewis
>>>
>>>
>>>
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