[Scilab-users] How to know which is the system's font?

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello Chin Luh,

Le 30/10/2019 à 03:17, Chin Luh Tan a écrit :
> Hi Samuel,
>
> I am not sure whether the information from the preference tab are the 
> one you need, if so, perhaps it could be retrieved by:
>
> --> my_font = xmlGetValues("//fonts/body/fonts", ["font-face", 
> "font-name", "font-size", "item", "latex", "system"])
> my_font  =
>
> !plain  Monospaced  13  Console  15  true  !

As far as i have understood (before opening this thread) how the 
XConfiguration file works wrt the preferences settings, when "system" is 
true, the system font is used as Desktop Font, instead of the given one.
It's the case here, and  then the "plain Monospaced 13" is NOT used as 
Desktop font.
In the Preferences GUI, it is greyed when "Use system font" is checked:


But i don't know what the "item" stands for in this tag. It could set 
the preselected item Console|Scinotes of the "Custom font" section, but, 
after checking, it's not the case.

Next tags are used for the Custom font section. If their "desktop" 
attribute was set to "true", then for instance the Console font would be 
the Desktop one (defined in the previous section) instead of the given 
one (then greyed in the GUI).
All these settings are conditionally nested... Not really trivial.

At the end, the system font is still implicit. XConfiguration does not 
provides its name, and it does not have to, since this would be only for 
information, in read-only mode, that is meaningless in a settings file.

Regards
Samuel

>
> --> my_font = xmlGetValues("//fonts/body/fonts/item", ["desktop", 
> "font-face", "font-name", "font-size", "name"])
> my_font  =
>
> !false  bold  Monospaced  16  Console   !
> !                                       !
> !false  bold  Monospaced  16  Scinotes  !
>

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