Changing combobox font

[Christoph Hart]

I think it's overdue to make something like Engine.setGlobalFont() so people can use their customised font for almost every text thingie.

[Dan Korneff]

Did this ever happen? I'm looking to change my combo box font as well.

[d.healey]

@dustbro I don't see a globalfont function in the API yet

[Christoph Hart]

The development branch is your friend here:

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/blob/93d23444d031788bf0bdd9741effa56ba0f9a006/hi_scripting/scripting/api/ScriptingApi.h#L205

Currently it uses the font for the Combobox texts and the Slider Value Popups (there are also new methods to change their appearance, but I need to look up how I implemented it a few weeks ago and write a doc).

[d.healey]

@christoph-hart Is there a method to change the text size of a combo box? Because my custom font is coming out tiny. Also I noticed that setting the global font also affects some of the text of the HISE interface too!

[Jay]

@d-healey following

[ossian1961]

@d-healey said in Changing combobox font:

@christoph-hart Is there a method to change the text size of a combo box? Because my custom font is coming out tiny. Also I noticed that setting the global font also affects some of the text of the HISE interface too!

Same here. When I investigated around the Hise sources I found that ComboBox is a JUCE module and there's no way (apparently) to set the font size after using the globalfont function as you can see from the code :(

void ComboBox::paint (Graphics& g)
{
    getLookAndFeel().drawComboBox (g, getWidth(), getHeight(), isButtonDown,
                                   label->getRight(), 0, getWidth() - label->getRight(), getHeight(),
                                   *this);

    if (textWhenNothingSelected.isNotEmpty()
         && label->getText().isEmpty()
         && ! label->isBeingEdited())
    {
        g.setColour (findColour (textColourId).withMultipliedAlpha (0.5f));
        g.setFont (label->getLookAndFeel().getLabelFont (*label));
        g.drawFittedText (textWhenNothingSelected, label->getBounds().reduced (2, 1),
                          label->getJustificationType(),
                          jmax (1, (int) (label->getHeight() / label->getFont().getHeight())));
    }
}

[Lindon]

Yep we are now needing this too

[Lindon]

@Lindon Bump Bump - REALLY needing this now.

[Christoph Hart]

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/commit/cd0eb5a7a2ce7ee79576f66a3b9d0c79d6285b12

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart Today is a productive day :D

[Christoph Hart]

Yeah, just crawling through the stuff that has piled up...

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart OK I can set the font, any way I can change the font size?

[ustk]

@Lindon Actually you can ;)

[Lindon]

@ustk woah - mine looks NOTHING like that:

-- am I on some earlier scriptnode release?

[d.healey]

@Lindon Font options is under the items list.

[Lindon]

@d-healey yeah I see that - but NOT on my implementation - it stops at the list...

like this:

[d.healey]

@Lindon When did you last rebuild? My version is from the 25th of September.

[Lindon]

@d-healey ..yeah mines from 11 july....look like I will have to re-build but I dont see anything in git hub about this

[d.healey]

@Lindon July! Oh you're living in the past, definitely grab the latest.