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askfont

tkfontchooser.askfont(master=None, text='Abcd', title='Font Chooser', **font_args)

Open the font chooser and return a dictionary of the font properties.

General Arguments:

master : Tk or Toplevel instance

master window

text : str

sample text to be displayed in the font chooser

title : str

dialog title

Font arguments:

family : str

font family

size : int

font size

slant : str

“roman” or “italic”

weight : str

“normal” or “bold”

underline : bool

whether the text is underlined

overstrike : bool

whether the text is overstriked

Output:

dictionary is similar to the one returned by the actual method of a tkinter Font object:

{'family': str,
 'size': int,
 'weight': 'bold'/'normal',
 'slant': 'italic'/'roman',
 'underline': bool,
 'overstrike': bool}

FontChooser

FontChooser inherits from all Toplevel methods.

class tkfontchooser.FontChooser(master, font_dict={}, text='Abcd', title='Font Chooser', **kwargs)

Font chooser dialog.

__init__(master, font_dict={}, text='Abcd', title='Font Chooser', **kwargs)

Create a new FontChooser instance.

Arguments:

master : Tk or Toplevel instance

master window

font_dict : dict

dictionnary, like the one returned by the actual method of a Font object:

{'family': str,
 'size': int,
 'weight': 'bold'/'normal',
 'slant': 'italic'/'roman',
 'underline': bool,
 'overstrike': bool}

text : str

text to be displayed in the preview label

title : str

window title

kwargs : dict

additional keyword arguments to be passed to Toplevel.__init__

get_res()

Return chosen font.

ok()

Validate choice.