wxpython change message dialog font?

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Python 2.7.3 x64 wxPython 2.8 x64

I'm having trouble changing the font of the wxpython message dialog box. I'd like to use a fixed-width font (I think wxFAMILY_MODERN is) to control the formatting of the output. Here's the code I'm using to test with ...

def infDialog (self, msg, title):
    """ Display Info Dialog Message """
    font = wx.Font(14, wx.MODERN, wx.NORMAL, wx.NORMAL)
    style = wx.OK | wx.ICON_INFORMATION | wx.STAY_ON_TOP
    dialog = wx.MessageDialog(self, msg, title, style)
    dialog.CenterOnParent()
    dialog.SetFont(font)
    result = dialog.ShowModal()
    if result == wx.ID_OK:
        print dialog.GetFont().GetFaceName()
    dialog.Destroy()
    return
# End infDialog()

But the results when I click OK are always "Arial". Any thoughts? Perhaps I need to make a custom dialog class?

Thanks,

-RMWChaos

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 17:47

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The wx.MessageDialog is a wrapper around the OS / system message dialog. I suspect each OS only allows so much editing or none at all. So yes, using a custom wx.Dialog or the generic message dialog widget (wx.lib.agw.genericmessagedialog) is the way to go if fonts are important.

answered Jun 13 '12 at 17:47

Mike Driscoll

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I was thinking of checking the advanced generic widgets for that as well. Thanks for the response! – RMWChaos Jun 14 '12 at 13:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '16 at 18:20

I was looking all over the internet and found that no one actually took the time to answer the question, instead just telling users to create their own dialog class. There is actually an easy way in which you should be able to change the font of your message dialog. Grabbing the dialog's textCtrl object and then setting the font of that object should do the trick.

Simply replace:

dialog.SetFont(font)

with

txt_ctrl = dialog.text
txt_ctrl.SetFont(font)

Let me know if this works for you.

wxpython change message dialog font?

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