Thursday, July 24, 2008

Changing a Control's Font Size at Runtime in VB.NET

If you have a control that is using a font with size 8.25 (which was defined at design-time), then at runtime you want to change it to a different size (such as 12), you cannot simply say:

ctrl.Font.Size = 12 (this will not work - Property Size is Read-Only)

However, you can replace the whole font:

ctrl.Font = new Font(ctrl.Font.FontFamily, 12, ctrl.Font.Style)

For more info and examples in C#, see: http://bytes.com/forum/thread261450.html
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM

    Hi!
    This was a great example, i was working on a listbox where i needed to be able to change the fontsize in runtime and after hours of searching the net i found this.

    Thank you very much!

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  2. AnonymousJuly 7, 2009 at 5:21 AM

    hi=) ..tnx 4 the gud example!! more power..its a great help!


    thk u vry mch=)...

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  3. AnonymousApril 29, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    Great. Thanks. This realy helps my school project =D

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  4. Shashank PurohitDecember 20, 2010 at 4:52 AM

    Thanks.. It helped me a lot..

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2012 at 2:19 AM

    Great help! Good contribution...

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