Comments on: Change Font Style

By: vishnu

vishnu — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:04:29 +0000

i have to convert change the font and fontstyle of a lable control to “ML-TTKarthika” and “bold” respectively, i could change font by writing this code

FontFamily fm = new FontFamily(“ML-TTKarthika”);
label2.Font = new Font(fm, 12);
but i couldn’t cahnge fontstyle. when i written this code label1.Font.font = true; change the fontstyle a error message shows that
Error 1 Property or indexer ‘System.Drawing.Font.Bold’ cannot be assigned to — it is read only

By: Boubaker

Boubaker — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:17:01 +0000

thank thats what i need

By: Jamatrix

Jamatrix — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:04:27 +0000

Use the string value to create a font family object then create and assign a new font with that font family object and the size as a float

FontFamily fm = new FontFamily(“Mistral”);
lblTime.Font = new Font(fm, 45);

By: Nick H

Nick H — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:56:18 +0000

You can set it to FontStyle.Regular to clean all styles fast.

By: timm

timm — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:46:50 +0000

Sanjay, that doesn’t work. Font.Bold is a read-only property (no setter).

By: sanjay vishwakarma

sanjay vishwakarma — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:28:16 +0000

Lable mylable=new Lable();
mylable.Font.Bold=true;

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:59:04 +0000

Very helpful… Many thanks!

By: timm

timm — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:52:08 +0000

To clear a flag in an enumeration, you would use the following format:

fontStyle &= ~FontStyle.Italic;

Note the tilde ~ before FontStyle.Italic. This inverts the flag, then you are AND-ing it with the original fontStyle. This preserves all flags except FontStyle.Italic, which effectively “shuts off” the italic style.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:00:50 +0000

If my FontStyle is set to Bold AND Italic, then I set fontStyle &= FontStyle.Italic;
in order to keep activated just the Bold style, the system switch off all the styles so as a result the font is turned into Regular.

How can I switch off just a style (Bold, Italic or Underline) at a time?

Thanks!
C.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:57:59 +0000

A, BTW:

If you want to clear all styles fast use this method:

static public Font CleanFont(Font font)
{ if (font != null)
{ FontStyle fontStyle = font.Style;

fontStyle &= FontStyle.Bold;
fontStyle &= FontStyle.Italic;
fontStyle &= FontStyle.Strikeout;
fontStyle &= FontStyle.Underline;

font = new Font(font, fontStyle);
}
return font;
}