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  <info>
    <title type="text">FontChooserWidget (Python)</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="beginner.py#font-selectors"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="signals-callbacks.py"/>
    <link type="next" xref="filechooserdialog.py"/>    
    <revision version="0.2" date="2012-05-05" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Marta Maria Casetti</name>
      <email its:translate="no">mmcasetti@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>A widget to choose a font</desc>
  </info>

  <title>FontChooserWidget</title>

  <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/fontchooserwidget.png"/>
  <p>A FontChooserWidget with a callback function.</p>

  <links type="section" />

  <section id="code">
    <title>Code used to generate this example</title>
    <code mime="text/x-python" style="numbered"><xi:include href="samples/fontchooserwidget.py" parse="text"><xi:fallback/></xi:include></code>
  </section>
  <section id="methods">
    <title>Useful methods for a FontChooserWidget</title>
    <p>In line 16 the <code>"notify::font"</code> signal from the widget is connected to the callback function <code>font_cb()</code> using <code><var>widget</var>.connect(<var>signal</var>, <var>callback function</var>)</code>. See <link xref="signals-callbacks.py"/> for a more detailed explanation.</p>
    <list>
      <item><p>To set the font which is initially selected, use <code>set_font(font)</code> (where <code>font</code> is the font name) or <code>set_font_desc(font)</code> (where <code>font</code> is the PangoFontDescription).</p></item>
      <item><p>To get the selected font use <code>get_font()</code> or <code>get_font_desc()</code>.</p></item>
      <item><p>To change the text which is shown in the preview area, use <code>set_preview_text()</code>. </p></item>
    </list>
  </section>
  <section id="references">
    <title>API References</title>
    <p>In this sample we used the following:</p>
    <list>
      <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkFontChooserWidget.html">GtkFontChooserWidget</link></p></item>
    </list>
  </section>
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