Notes
- The dialog box only uses the current Windows system theme
ui.fontdialog([widget], [color])
Displays a dialog box for the user to choose a Windows system font.
Parameters
widget
An optional widget whose font will initialize dialog's fields.
If an Edit widget is provided, the current selection font is used to initialize dialog's fields.
color
An optional number representing a RGB color value, to initialize the dialog color field.
Return value
If a font selection has been made, this function returns four values which correspond to the characteristics of the selected font :- The font name as a string.
- The font size as a number.
- The font style as a table with boolean fields "italic", "underline", "striked", "bold", "thin", "heavy".
- The font color as a number.
Example
local ui = require "ui"
-- open a dialog to choose a font
local name, size, style, color = ui.fontdialog()
-- check if a font have been choosen
if name ~= " " then
-- output font characteristics
local msg = "Font name : "..name.."\nFont size : "..size.."\nFont color : "..string.format("%X", color).."\nFont style :"
for k, v in pairs(style) do
if v then
msg = msg.." ["..k.."]"
end
end
ui.info(msg)
end