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Reputation: 285

C# How to change font of a label

A form with a label and a button 'Options'. By clicking the button a new form opens with 2 radio buttons 'Font1' and 'Font2', and two buttons 'Apply' and 'Cancel'. Upon selecting one of the radio buttons and clicking 'Apply' will make the label on the first form change the font face. The problem is how to change the font as in from say Tahoma to Arial or to any other font face of the label.

Options form code for apply button, which if was clicked will return dialogresult.ok == true and change the font of the label on the first form:

private void btnApply_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (radioFont1.Checked)
    {
        mainForm.lblName.Font.Name = "Arial"; 'wrong attempt 
    }
    this.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
}

Declaration of the label on first form so that it is visible to second form:

public static Label lblName = new Label();

...

private void mainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    lblName = lblBarName;
}

Upvotes: 24

Views: 120901

Answers (5)

meisam
meisam

Reputation: 1

this.lblMessage.Font = new Font("arial", this.lblName.Font.Size);

Upvotes: 0

MasterCassidy
MasterCassidy

Reputation: 49

I noticed there was not an actual full code answer, so as i come across this, i have created a function, that does change the font, which can be easily modified. I have tested this in

- XP SP3 and Win 10 Pro 64

private void SetFont(Form f, string name, int size, FontStyle style)
{
    Font replacementFont = new Font(name, size, style);
    f.Font = replacementFont;
}

Hint: replace Form to either Label, RichTextBox, TextBox, or any other relative control that uses fonts to change the font on them. By using the above function thus making it completely dynamic.

    /// To call the function do this.
    /// e.g in the form load event etc.

public Form1()
{
      InitializeComponent();
      SetFont(this, "Arial", 8, FontStyle.Bold);  
      // This sets the whole form and 
      // everything below it.
      // Shaun Cassidy.
}

You can also, if you want a full libary so you dont have to code all the back end bits, you can download my dll from Github.

Github DLL

/// and then import the namespace
using Droitech.TextFont;

/// Then call it using:
TextFontClass fClass = new TextFontClass();
fClass.SetFont(this, "Arial", 8, FontStyle.Bold);

Simple.

Upvotes: 0

Borja
Borja

Reputation: 2198

You need to create a new Font

mainForm.lblName.Font = new Font("Arial", mainForm.lblName.Font.Size);

Upvotes: 4

Reed Copsey
Reed Copsey

Reputation: 564323

You can't change a Font once it's created - so you need to create a new one:

  mainForm.lblName.Font = new Font("Arial", mainForm.lblName.Font.Size);

Upvotes: 9

djdd87
djdd87

Reputation: 68456

Font.Name, Font.XYZProperty, etc are readonly as Font is an immutable object, so you need to specify a new Font object to replace it:

mainForm.lblName.Font = new Font("Arial", mainForm.lblName.Font.Size);

Check the constructor of the Font class for further options.

Upvotes: 45

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