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From: merlyn@attunix.att.com (Steve Humphrey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: OblongButtonWidget Fonts
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.185048.4536@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:50:48 GMT
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> I am trying to change the font of my OblongButtonWidget in OLIT.
> The button ignores my '*font: ...' in my resource file, it ignores
> a new font passed to it at initialization time and it ignores a
> XtSetValues with a new FontStruct.  Why is this?  How do I change
> the font in the buttons (I need to do this so that I can display
> 8-bit characters)?

My apologies for this problem. The initial releases of the OPEN
LOOK toolkit had ``hardwired'' fonts for the buttons, mainly
because we had a not-so-good method of drawing the oblong
outlines. (The outlines couldn't stretch to accommodate an
arbitrary font, so we fixed the font.) The OPEN LOOK Release 4
toolkit has fixed this problem, and any font can be used.

OpenWindows 2.0 has the problem, the next release won't.

Steve Humphrey
UNIX System Laboratories