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To use the font selection dialog to change both the font and the color of a label
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import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FontDialog;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Label;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
public class FontDialogColorFontData {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setText("Font Chooser");
shell.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, false));
final Label fontLabel = new Label(shell, SWT.NONE);
fontLabel.setText("The selected font");
Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
button.setText("Font...");
button.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent event) {
Font font = null;
Color color = null;
FontDialog dlg = new FontDialog(shell);
if (font != null)
dlg.setFontList(fontLabel.getFont().getFontData());
if (color != null)
dlg.setRGB(color.getRGB());
if (dlg.open() != null) {
if (font != null)
font.dispose();
if (color != null)
color.dispose();
font = new Font(shell.getDisplay(), dlg.getFontList());
fontLabel.setFont(font);
color = new Color(shell.getDisplay(), dlg.getRGB());
fontLabel.setForeground(color);
shell.pack();
if (font != null)
font.dispose();
if (color != null)
color.dispose();
}
}
});
shell.pack();
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}
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