Hi Anton, This could be achieved by using the existing TAttText class with some new conventions on the font precision and text size. We already use font precisions 0, 1 and 2. One could use another number to select a fixed size font in pixels. Rene Brun On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 FOKIN@tsl.uu.se wrote: > Hi rooters, > perhaps this question has been already asked, but anyway... > This is nice that ROOT allowes different elements in Canvas to be scalable > and adopt their sizes to canvas size. On the other hand it doesn't look > great if a user resizes a canvas and suddenly gets huge headers or numbers > on axis, i.e. all text based elements. > > Is it possible to get control over font size. In different situations I > would like to do. > > 1. Fix font size (in pixels or "normal" units!) independetly on the canvas/ > pad/element size. Say "Courier 12". > 2. Set min/max size (again in pixels!). Sometimes it is really nice to > have smaller font size if you shrink a histogram, but as I said it doesn't > look nice if axis label takes half of the screen when you maximize canvas > window :) > > Best regards, > Anton >
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