tkinter font selector?

[Richard Chamberlain]

Hi Bob,

In tkFont there is a method called families which returns a list
of installed fonts. I've created a little script below which
pops them in a combobox and changes the font of a label
according to the item selected. It would be fairly easy to to
add size and style (but I'll let you do that ;) ).

from Tkinter import *
from tkFont import families
import Pmw
root = Tk()
Pmw.initialise()

choice = None
comboentries = families(root)
lblTest = Label(root, text='Test Font',padx=20, pady=10)
lblTest.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH, padx=8, pady=8)

def selectFont(entry):
    lblTest.configure(font=(entry,10))
combobox = Pmw.ComboBox(root, label_text='Font:', labelpos='wn',
                        listbox_width=24, dropdown=1,
                        scrolledlist_items=comboentries,
                        selectioncommand=selectFont)
combobox.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1, padx=8, pady=8)

combobox.selectitem(comboentries[0])

root.mainloop()

Richard

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