SoFontStyle: The sofontstyle class changes the appearance of fonts for text rendering nodes. successive text rendering nodes will use fonts with the style settings of this node, if a font with the given settings can be found and loaded from the system.

SYNOPSIS

#include <Inventor/nodes/SoFontStyle.h>

Inherits SoFont.

Public Types

enum Family { SERIF, SANS, TYPEWRITER }

enum Style { NONE, BOLD, ITALIC }

Public Member Functions

virtual SoType getTypeId (void) const

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and 'downward' casting. SoFontStyle (void)

SbString getFontName (void) const

virtual void doAction (SoAction *action)

virtual void getBoundingBox (SoGetBoundingBoxAction *action)

virtual void GLRender (SoGLRenderAction *action)

virtual void callback (SoCallbackAction *action)

virtual void pick (SoPickAction *action)

virtual void getPrimitiveCount (SoGetPrimitiveCountAction *action)

Static Public Member Functions

static SoType getClassTypeId (void)

static void initClass (void)

Public Attributes

SoSFEnum family

SoSFBitMask style

Protected Member Functions

virtual const SoFieldData * getFieldData (void) const

virtual ~SoFontStyle ()

Static Protected Member Functions

static const SoFieldData ** getFieldDataPtr (void)

Additional Inherited Members

Detailed Description

The SoFontStyle class changes the appearance of fonts for text rendering nodes.

Successive text rendering nodes will use fonts with the style settings of this node, if a font with the given settings can be found and loaded from the system.

If the specified font style cannot be found on the client system, a default fallback will be used. So the application programmer must consider SoFontStyle nodes as nodes giving hints about font settings, as you are not guaranteed to get exactly what you want.

Currently the SERIF family is mapped to 'Times New Roman', SANS is mapped to 'Arial' and TYPEWRITER is mapped to 'Courier New'.

Please note that this node is inheriting SoFont. Previous font settings in a branch will therefore be overwritten with the default values of SoFont if an empty SoFontStyle node is inserted in the branch.

NB! This node is provided for reasons of compatibility with Open Inventor 2.1 but will in most cases result in the default font being rendered. It is highly recommended to use the SoFont node instead.

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULTS:

FontStyle {
    name "defaultFont"
    size 10
    family SERIF
    style ()
}

Since:

Inventor 2.1

See also:

SoFont, SoText2, SoText3, SoAsciiText

Member Enumeration Documentation

enum \fBSoFontStyle::Family\fP

Enumeration of the font family to use.

enum \fBSoFontStyle::Style\fP

Enumeration of font style characteristics.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoFontStyle::SoFontStyle (void)

Constructor.

SoFontStyle::~SoFontStyle ()\fC [protected]\fP, \fC [virtual]\fP

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

\fBSoType\fP SoFontStyle::getTypeId (void) const\fC [virtual]\fP

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and 'downward' casting. Usage example:

void foo(SoNode * node)
{
  if (node->getTypeId() == SoFile::getClassTypeId()) {
    SoFile * filenode = (SoFile *)node;  // safe downward cast, knows the type
  }
}

For application programmers wanting to extend the library with new nodes, engines, nodekits, draggers or others: this method needs to be overridden in all subclasses. This is typically done as part of setting up the full type system for extension classes, which is usually accomplished by using the pre-defined macros available through for instance Inventor/nodes/SoSubNode.h (SO_NODE_INIT_CLASS and SO_NODE_CONSTRUCTOR for node classes), Inventor/engines/SoSubEngine.h (for engine classes) and so on.

For more information on writing Coin extensions, see the class documentation of the toplevel superclasses for the various class groups.