wx.FontPickerCtrl allows for setting font color, but how to get it?

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Hi,

wx.FontPickerCtrl allows for the user to set the font and its color,
but I can't seem to find a way to find out what color the user has
picked. The API of the FontPickerCtrl doesn't contain a
GetSelectedColor or something like that, neither do the base classes
of FontPickerCtrl. What am I missing?

Thanks, Frank

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When using the wx.FontDialog you get access to the colour from the wx.FontData, but it looks like the picker doesn't give you access to that. Sounds like it's time for a feature request ticket at wxTrac.

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On 1/7/10 1:31 PM, Frank Niessink wrote:

Hi,

wx.FontPickerCtrl allows for the user to set the font and its color,
but I can't seem to find a way to find out what color the user has
picked. The API of the FontPickerCtrl doesn't contain a
GetSelectedColor or something like that, neither do the base classes
of FontPickerCtrl. What am I missing?

--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman

3

This is one of the reasons I believe we should replace wxFontPicker
with Julian Smart's wxFontSelectorCtrl, which looks more 'modern' and
returns a wxFontData from which you can get the font color /
underline / strikethrough. For a C++ program where I used it I did
have to write custom code to serialize / deserialize all this to a
string. Maybe I whould ask Julian to incorporate this into his code so
users can save the font settings to a database / registry key easily.

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On Jan 8, 7:38 am, Robin Dunn <ro...@alldunn.com> wrote:

On 1/7/10 1:31 PM, Frank Niessink wrote:

> Hi,

> wx.FontPickerCtrl allows for the user to set the font and its color,
> but I can't seem to find a way to find out what color the user has
> picked. The API of the FontPickerCtrl doesn't contain a
> GetSelectedColor or something like that, neither do the base classes
> of FontPickerCtrl. What am I missing?

When using the wx.FontDialog you get access to the colour from the
wx.FontData, but it looks like the picker doesn't give you access to
that. Sounds like it's time for a feature request ticket at wxTrac.

--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsmanhttp://wxPython.org

4

I opened a bug report. Also, here's a simple work around in Python:

import wx

class FontPickerCtrl(wx.Button):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.font = kwargs.pop('font')
        self.colour = kwargs.pop('colour')
        super(FontPickerCtrl, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.__updateButton()
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onClick)

    def onClick(self, event):
        fontData = wx.FontData()
        fontData.SetInitialFont(self.font)
        fontData.SetColour(self.colour)
        dialog = wx.FontDialog(self, fontData)
        if wx.ID_OK == dialog.ShowModal():
            fontData = dialog.GetFontData()
            self.font = fontData.GetChosenFont()
            self.colour = fontData.GetColour()
            self.__updateButton()
            event = wx.FontPickerEvent(self, self.GetId(), self.font)
            self.GetEventHandler().ProcessEvent(event)

    def __updateButton(self):
        self.SetLabel(self.font.GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc())
        self.SetFont(self.font)
        self.SetForegroundColour(self.colour)

    def GetSelectedFont(self):
        return self.font

    def GetSelectedColour(self):
        return self.colour

    def SetColour(self, colour):
        self.colour = colour
        self.__updateButton()

Cheers, Frank

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2010/1/8 Robin Dunn <robin@alldunn.com>:

On 1/7/10 1:31 PM, Frank Niessink wrote:

Hi,

wx.FontPickerCtrl allows for the user to set the font and its color,
but I can't seem to find a way to find out what color the user has
picked. The API of the FontPickerCtrl doesn't contain a
GetSelectedColor or something like that, neither do the base classes
of FontPickerCtrl. What am I missing?

When using the wx.FontDialog you get access to the colour from the
wx.FontData, but it looks like the picker doesn't give you access to that.
Sounds like it's time for a feature request ticket at wxTrac.