Setting the Font in a Custom Widget

[cpsmusic]

Hi,

I'm currently developing a custom widget (a meter that displays realtime input). I need to draw a scale on the meter. So far I've used the following:

QFont font("Times", 8, QFont::Normal, true);
    setFont(font);
    for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 11; ++i) {
        painter.drawLine(15, 20*i, 19, 20*i);
        painter.drawText(3, 20*i + 3, QString::number(i*6));
    }

QFont font("Times", 8, QFont::Normal, true);
    setFont(font);
    for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 11; ++i) {
        painter.drawLine(15, 20*i, 19, 20*i);
        painter.drawText(3, 20*i + 3, QString::number(i*6));
    }

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I'm not happy with the font - how can I work out what fonts are available?

[mvuori]

How did you miss QFontDatabase? http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qfontdatabase.html

[cpsmusic]

Thanks!

One thing about the code I posted - it seems that even if I change the font name, the font shown in the widget doesn't change. Am I missing something?

[Lykurg]

set the font at the QPainter object you are using to draw the text. If you call setFont outside the paint event, then it will be set the next time the paintEvent method will be called.

[cpsmusic]

The code I posted is called inside the widget's paintEvent method.

[Santosh Reddy]

You can set the font to the painter

QFont font("Times", 8, QFont::Normal, true);
painter->setFont(font);

QFont font("Times", 8, QFont::Normal, true);
painter->setFont(font);

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