[Zipguy]  2013-09-01 - You can find out my email address by clicking on [Zipguy].

I've been looking around for "Font Choosers", and here are the ones I've found so far. Some of the screenshots are from my site, at http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy.

You can feel free to edit this page, and add more "Font Choosers", if you find another one.  A screenshot would be great, especially for comparison of features.
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[MG] Tk 8.6 includes a built-in http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/fontchooser.htm%|%fontchooser%|%, which uses a native dialog on Windows and MacOS X.

[Zipguy]  2013-09-09 - Wow! it looks great on Windows (which I'm using).  I added it to the list of "Font Choosers", and added a screen shot of it also.  It does show the list of fonts, by the name of the font, IN that font!

It's my new favorite.  Thanks a lot for pointing it out to me, [MG].
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Various versions of "Font Choosers":
   * Was written by [rle], is at [A small font chooser]. Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/A_small_font_chooser.png]
   * Was written by [ulis], is at [A little font chooser]. Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/new_font_01.png]]
   * Was written by [Bryan Oakley], is at http://www1.clearlight.com/~oakley/tcl/combobox/index.html.  It was written (hidden under example.tcl, within combobox.zip) as an example of how to use combobox (2003).  Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/example_font_chooser.png]

   * Was written by [dkf], is at http://people.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/mwidx.html#fontdlg. Sample:

[http://people.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/dkffont-tile-xp.png]

   * Was written by someone way back in 1999, and [Jeff Hobbs] took it over, around 2001, is part of the [BWidget] package.  I ran 'demo', which came up nicely. At tab number four, named 'Dialog', with the button called 'Font selector dialog', at the bottom section, called 'Other dialog'.  You can see how I invoked it http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/BWidget_Demo_tab4.png%|%<here>%|%.  BWidget is part of [ActiveState]'s release, if you have downloaded that.  If you haven't, you can look at the source code at: [https://core.tcl.tk/bwidget/home], if you click on 'Files'. Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/Font_selection.png]

   * Was written by [Keith Vetter], is at [Another Font Chooser Dialog]. Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/fontcd_01.png]

The one above used to be my favorite, but that's because it looks so familiar to me, since I've been on Windows (now 7,) back when 3.0 came out.
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But now, I have a new favorite, namely  http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/fontchooser.htm%|%fontchooser%|%, which is built-in to [ActiveState]'s 8.6.0 release.  Sample:

[http://www.geocities.ws/thezipguy/misc/Font_Selector_Dialog_03.png]

But, it is Windows only!  I don't know yet, if tclkit-8.6.0-win32.upx.exe has it too, I hope it does!

[MG] It's not Windows only - the command is there on Mac OS and Linux, too. The dialog just look different on each platform; Windows and Mac OS both have native versions, while Linux uses one written in Tcl (looking at the source, it seems to be [Keith Vetter]'s dialog above).

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