X11Font(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						X11Font(3)

NAME

       Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts

SYNOPSIS

	use Tk::X11Font;

	$font = $widget->X11Font(foundry => 'adobe',
			      family  => 'times',
			      point   => 120
			     );

	$font = $widget->X11Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*');

DESCRIPTION

	  This module can be use to interrogate the X server what fonts are
	  avaliable.

METHODS

   Foundry( [ $val ] )
   Family( [ $val ] )
   Weight( [ $val ] )
   Slant( [ $val ] )
   Swidth( [ $val ] )
   Adstyle( [ $val ] )
   Pixel( [ $val ] )
   Point( [ $val ] )
   Xres( [ $val ] )
   Yres( [ $val ] )
   Space( [ $val ] )
   Avgwidth( [ $val ] )
   Registry( [ $val ] )
   Encoding( [ $val ] )
       Set the given field in the font name to $val if given and return the current or previous value

   Name( [ $max ] )
       In a list context it returns a list of all font names that match the fields given. It will return a maximum of $max names, or 128 if $max
       is not given.

       In a scalar contex it returns the first matching name or undef

   Clone( [ key => value, [ ...]] )
       Create a duplicate of the curent font object and modify the given fields

AUTHOR

       Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>

HISTORY

       11-Jan-96 Initial version

       08-Nov-98 Renamed for Tk800.012

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.1							    2007-05-05								X11Font(3)