How make label bold at runtime?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ronald S. Cook
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Mr. Arnold said:
This may be what you're looking for possibly. It seems kind of ridiculous
that you just can't set .Bold = true.
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'Font' is only a wrapper around a Win32 'HFONT'. In Win32, font objects
cannot be altered after they have been created.
 
'Font' is only a wrapper around a Win32 'HFONT'. In Win32, font objects
cannot be altered after they have been created.
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You're right, but this is not a good way.
In VB6 the Font wrapper let you change the style, name, size, ecc... and in
..Net object of this type tell me "but I need to Dispose the old one or the
fw will do it for me?".

:)
 
Ron -

I woudl declare the two fonts (bold and not) as private variables (ie
as "fields" in OOP terminology), and set their values in the form's
onload event handler. That will allow you to reuse the same font
objects and swap them as needed, instead of constructing a new one
each time you desire thie effect. See how much cleaner this is?

Private myFont As Font
Private myFontBold As Font

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
myFont = New Font(Label1.Font, FontStyle.Regular)
myFontBold = New Font(Label1.Font, FontStyle.Bold)
End Sub

Private Sub BoldDemo(ByVal DoIt As Boolean)
If DoIt Then
Label1.Font = myFontBold
Else
Label1.Font = myFont
End If
End Sub


Good Luck,

-Mark
 
Fabio said:
You're right, but this is not a good way.
In VB6 the Font wrapper let you change the style, name, size, ecc... and
in .Net object of this type tell me "but I need to Dispose the old one or
the fw will do it for me?".
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Do not dispose it if it is used for more than one control. If it isn't used
any more, you can (my recommendation) safely dispose it.
 
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