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ID	CS000833	Creation date	February 28, 2008
Platform	S60 3rd Edition S60 3rd Edition, FP1	Tested on devices	Nokia E61i Nokia E90 Communicator
Category	Symbian C++	Subcategory	UI

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): CEikLabel, TFontSpec, CFont, CGraphicsDevice, CGraphicsDevice::GetNearestFontInTwips(), CEikLabel::SetFont()

Overview

This code snippet demonstrates how to set the font for CEikLabel.

This snippet can be self-signed.

MMP file

The following libraries are required:

• LIBRARY  gdi.lib

Header file

private:
    CEikLabel* iLabel;

Source file

#include <gdi.h>  // TFontSpec

iLabel = new(ELeave) CEikLabel;
 
// Set up a font specification
_LIT(KFontName, "LatinPlain12");
const TInt KFontSize = 180;  // Height of the typeface in twips
TFontSpec fontSpec(KFontName, KFontSize);
 
// Find the nearest available font to the TFontSpec and assign it to CFont
CGraphicsDevice* screenDevice = iEikonEnv->ScreenDevice();
CFont* font;
screenDevice->GetNearestFontInTwips(font, fontSpec);
 
// Set the font for the label
iLabel->SetFont(font);
 
// Destroy the font
screenDevice->ReleaseFont(font);

Postconditions

The font used by CEikLabel is set.