Keith Vetter 2004-10-22 : A very simple font viewer that displays all fonts on your system. Fixed width fonts are prefixed with a star.
package require Tk canvas .c -bd 0 -height 0 -highlightthickness 0 ;# Just for resizing by pixels scrollbar .sb -orient vertical -command {.t yview} text .t -wrap none -yscrollcommand {.sb set} -width 0 pack .sb -fill y -side right pack .c -fill both -expand 1 -side top pack .t -fill both -expand 1 -side left bind all <Key-F2> {console show} catch {eval font delete [font names]} set default [lindex [.t config -font] 3] .t tag configure default -font $default set sample "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIi 1234567890 .,+-:*?!" set left 0 set width 0 foreach font [lsort -dictionary [font families]] { set len [font measure $default $font] ;# Size of font name if {$len > $left} {set left $len} set f [font create -family $font] set len [font measure $f $sample] if {$len > $width} {set width $len} if {[font metrics $f -fixed]} { .t insert end "*" default } .t tag configure tag_$f -font $f .t insert end "$font\t" default "$sample\n" tag_$f } set left [expr {$left + 5}] set width [expr {$width + $left + 10}] .t config -tabs [list [expr {($left + $width) / 2}] center] .c config -width $width
This displays all fonts at once. If you instead want to choose a font then checkout BWidget's SelectFont, A little font chooser, A small font chooser or Another font chooser dialog - based on tablelist
Oct-08-2005 There is also a font selection dialogue by dkf. Look at http://people.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/mwidx.html#fontdlg
LES When I maximize this app, the font pane remains in the same size, in more or less the center of the window. All my experiments with -expand have failed. How can I make it expand correctly?
MG Try changing the line
pack .c -fill both -expand 1 -side top
so that it reads
pack .c -fill x -expand 0 -side top
That seems to fix the problem for me.