How To Change Control Fonts at Runtime

Problem: How To Change Control Fonts at Runtime

Solution: Starting with Satellite Forms 7.0, a new control property is provided to change control fonts at runtime. This capability is implemented for the PalmOS and PocketPC platforms.

Font

Controls(ControlName).Font

Returns or sets the current FontID of a control.

Parameter

ControlName

Name of a control.

Return Value

The current FontID of the control, an integer value from 0..7 (PalmOS) or 0..3 (PocketPC) corresponding to this table of FontIDs:

FontID	Font Description PalmOS	Font Description PocketPC
0	Normal 9	Tahoma 8
1	Bold 9	Tahoma 8 Bold
2	Normal 12	Tahoma 10
3	Symbol 9	Tahoma 10 Bold
4	Symbol 11	n/a
5	Symbol 7	n/a
6	LED	n/a
7	Bold 12	n/a

Comments

Font is a property of the Control object. You can change a control's font property by setting this property to one of the specified FontID values. In that case, the function does not return a value.

Example

'Example of Font property

'InputA is an edit control.

'change InputA font to Bold

If InputA.Font = 0 Then

InputA.Font = 1

EndIf