ui.fontdialog()

ui.fontdialog([widget], [color])function

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.

Notes

The dialog box only uses the current Windows system theme

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.

If the user clicked on the Cancel button, this function returns nil.

Example


--! luart-extensions
import 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