Changing the font for w/s and tabs

[chaz]

Can the font for the workspace tree and tabs be set. It is ridiculously large on my system.

[eranif]

Those fonts are the default GUI font of your machine...

Btw, Which OS? on Windows you can change them by right clicking on the desktop -> Settings

Eran

[chaz]

Red Hat w/gnome

See the attached screenshot and the difference between the codelite gui, the desktop icon bar and firefox menus.

Thanks for the response!

[eranif]

Red Hat w/gnome

See the attached screenshot and the difference between the codelite gui, the desktop icon bar and firefox menus.

Thanks for the response!

codelite does not set any font, this is the GUI font returned by the OS to the application.
Moreover, lets assume that we could change the font on the tabs which I can control, the Menu Bar is really not something that codelite does, it is set by wxWidgets

I still thinks its a system settings, but I will need to check with some of my Linux Gurus

EDIT: I just tried to modify the fonts on my Linux box from System -> Appearance -> Fonts, (I modified the 'Application Font') and it did worked out for me)

Eran

[chaz]

Well I did build codelite and wxWidgets from source, but I did not modify anything. Perhaps it's my old RedHat version? Any idea where I could add a call to set the font once so wxWidgets uses an appropriate size?

[eranif]

Its probably has to do with your RH version. Since I did check it on various Linux distros and it is working for all of them

For the tabs, have a look at 'custom_tab.cpp' look in the OnPaint method.

For the menu bar, have a look at frame.cpp, line 671
The menubar with all the menus is loaded from XML file.

The call to wxXmlResource::Get()->LoadMenuBar(wxT("main_menu")) returns wxMenuBar, which inherits from wxWindow and thus has access to SetFont() method, however I dont think it is the correct thing to do. I really think its something with your OS

Eran

[chaz]

Thank you for looking at this.

I was able to solve the problem by building gtk+ from src, then rebuilding wxWidgets, then codelite and it works like it is supposed to.

Sorry for the goose chase.

BTW, love using codelite, compared to others like slickedit, eclipse.