---
name: "Prima::FontDialog"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "libprima-perl"
version: "1.28-1.3+b3"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Prima::FontDialog"
---

# Prima::FontDialog(3)

standard font dialog

## NAME

Prima::FontDialog - standard font dialog

## SYNOPSIS

```
        use Prima::FontDialog;
        my $f = Prima::FontDialog-> create;
        return unless $f-> execute == mb::OK;
        $f = $f-> logFont;
        print "$_:$f->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$f;
```

## DESCRIPTION

The dialog provides selection of font by name, style, size, and encoding. The font selected is returned by logFont property.

## API

### Properties

- fixedOnly BOOLEAN

  Selects whether only the fonts of fixed pitch ( 1 ) or all fonts ( 0 ) are displayed in the selection list.

  Default value: 0

- logFont FONT

  Provides access to the interactive font selection as a hash reference. FONT format is fully compatible with `"Prima::Drawable::font"`.

- showHelp BOOLEAN

  Create-only property.

  Specifies if the help button is displayed in the dialog.

  Default value: 0

### Events

- BeginDragFont

  Called when the user starts dragging a font from the font sample widget by left mouse button.

  Default action reflects the status in the dialog title

- EndDragFont $WIDGET

  Called when the user releases the mouse drag over a Prima widget. Default action applies currently selected font to `$WIDGET`.

## AUTHOR

Dmitry Karasik, \<dmitry@karasik.eu.org\>.

## SEE ALSO

Prima, Prima::Window, Prima::Drawable.