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Sample Code 395: How to change the font of menus and menuitems - Part 1?
Written by kksou   
Friday, 21 December 2007
Problem

You have set up menus and radio menus in How to set up menu and radio menu - Part 3 - add accelerators?

Suppose you would like to change the font and font size of the menus and menuitems as shown below:

How to change the font of menus and menuitems - Part 1?


Solution

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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(400, 150);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
$accel_group = new GtkAccelGroup();
$window->add_accel_group($accel_group);

// define menu definition
$menu_definition = array(
    '_File' => array('_New|N', '_Open|O', '_Close|C', '<hr>',
                    '_Save|S', 'Save _As','<hr>', '_Quit'),
    '_Edit' => array('Cut|X', 'Copy|C', '_Paste|V', '<hr>',
                    'Select All|A', '<hr>', '_Undo|Z','_Redo|Y'),
    '_Test' => array('Test_1|1', 'Test_2|2', 'Test_3|3', '<hr>',
                array('Selection 1', 'Selection 2', 'Selection 3'),
                '<hr>', 'Test_4|4')
);
setup_menu($vbox, $menu_definition);

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("   Change the font and fontsize\n".
"of menu and menuitems - Part 1");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$vbox->pack_start($title);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(''));

$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();

// setup menu
function setup_menu($vbox, $menus) {
    global $accel_group;
    $menubar = new GtkMenuBar();
    $vbox->pack_start($menubar, 0, 0);
    foreach($menus as $toplevel => $sublevels) {
        $menubar->append($top_menu = new GtkMenuItem($toplevel));
        $label = $top_menu->child; // note 1
        set_menuitem_font($label); // note 2
        $menu = new GtkMenu();
        $top_menu->set_submenu($menu);
        foreach($sublevels as $submenu) {
            if (strpos("$submenu", '|') === false) {
                $accel_key = '';
            } else {
                list($submenu, $accel_key) = explode('|', $submenu);
            }

            if (is_array($submenu)) { // set up radio menus
                $i=0;
                $radio[0] = null;
                foreach($submenu as $radio_item) {
                    $radio[$i] = new GtkRadioMenuItem($radio[0], $radio_item);
                    $radio[$i]->connect('toggled', "on_toggle");
                    $menu->append($radio[$i]);

                    ++$i;
                }
                $radio[0]->set_active(1); // select the first item

            } else {
                if ($submenu=='<hr>') {
                    $menu->append(new GtkSeparatorMenuItem());
                } else {
                    $submenu2 = str_replace('_', '', $submenu);
                    $submenu2 = str_replace(' ', '_', $submenu2);
                    $stock_image_name = 'Gtk::STOCK_'.strtoupper($submenu2);
                    if (defined($stock_image_name)) {
                        $menu_item = new GtkImageMenuItem(
                                        constant($stock_image_name));
                    } else {
                        $menu_item = new GtkMenuItem($submenu);
                    }
                    if ($accel_key!='') {
                        $menu_item->add_accelerator("activate", $accel_group,
                        ord($accel_key), Gdk::CONTROL_MASK, 1);
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Explanation

We make use of the code from How to set up menu and radio menu - Part 3 - add accelerators? to set up the standard menu and menuitems.

What's new here:

  1. Get the pointer to the GtkLabel of each toplevel menuitem.
  2. Change the font.
  3. Get the pointer to the GtkLabel of each menuitem.
  4. Change the font.
  5. In this example, we change the font of the menuitem to "Times New Roman 12".

Note

The above code runs ok, except for the radio menuitems as shown below:

We will fix this in Part 2.


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