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guiSetFont

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Pair: guiGetFont

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This function sets the font of a GUI element to be used when drawing text.

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Syntax

bool guiSetFont ( element guiElement, mixed font )
Required Arguments
  • guiElement: The GUI element you wish to change the font of
  • font: Either a custom GUI font element or the name of a built-in GUI font. See Standard GUI Font Names

Returns

  • bool: value

Returns true if the font has been successfully set on the gui element, false otherwise.

Code Examples

shared

This example sets and gets the font of a pre-made gui element and outputs it to chat box.

-- We create a dummy gui label to get text of
local dummyGUIElement = guiCreateLabel ( 0.45, 0.48, 0.10, 0.04, "Hello world", true )
guiSetFont ( dummyGUIElement, "sa-gothic" )
-- Output the font of the label to chat box
outputChatBox ( "Font used in the GUI label: " .. guiGetFont ( dummyGuiElement ) )

See Also

GUI Functions