[Qt-interest] Solaris Font Issues Porting Qt3 to Qt4

[Dan White]

Why not try a QFontComboBox to see what your system offers

<http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qfontcombobox.html>

Make a little test app to let you choose a font and then see its settings.

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----- Jake Colman <colman at ppllc.com> wrote:
> 
> Our application is a mixed Motif/Qt application using the Qt Motif
> Extension.  When using Qt3, the fonts on my Qt screens were an exact
> match for the fonts on my Motif screens.  Since upgrading to Qt4, the Qt
> fonts are quite ugly and certainly do not match.
> 
> I use an app-defaults file to specify my Motif fonts.  In Qt I do the
> following:
> 
>   QFont Font;
>   Font.setFamily("Helvetica [Adobe]");
>   Font.setPixelSize(12);
>   QApplication::setFont(Font);
> 
> What do I need to do differently in Qt4 so that I get the above code
> chooses the same font that it did in Qt3?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ...Jake
> 
> 
> 
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