Default system font

Hello,
I have a question about Windows-Default font. I Like to set the font size for Objects with the UI-Manager, but i don't know the windows system font.
regards
marco

Well I don't think you can get the windows fonts from the UIManager. UIManager based on the look and feel does its best to match the fonts on your system. If you try to get the fonts from UIManager, you get what ever fonts are currently in use in your java app. If you really want to query the OS, your option is to use JNI.
May be if you use AWT, it might give you the system fonts...
Try doing this..
UIManager.putValue("Label.font", new java.awt.Label().getFont());
Sai Pullabhotla

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Last edited by *nixer (2012-03-26 02:04:20)

*nixer wrote:
Hello.
I'm running a Xfce4 DE, and I seem to be having an issue with my system font. It started after installing vlc, and the accompanying ttf-freefont package.
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http://imgur.com/a/4FwKB
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http://imgur.com/GfWME
This problem affects all sorts of programs... Terminal, Firefox, wxHexEditor, etc.
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Your first image has overlapping fonts because your default fonts has been changed when you installed VLC. You can try removing the ttf-freefont like here
Your second image looks fine(you will need fonts settings as per the wiki, which is why i linked the page), it doesnt have overlapping fonts. what exactly are you asking here?
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jasonwryan wrote:
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Last edited by Infrared (2012-06-04 01:46:15)

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