Question

Im looking for a way to present a flexible font, that will increase and decrease in size according to to the size of the screen resolution. I want to be able to do this without the HTML window class. Is there a way? I thought I’ve done quite a bit of googling without success.

EDIT
This seems a good question, I changed the title to reflect closer what I was looking for.

EDIT

So now I’ve realized that the regular pixel sizes will scale in the way I mentioned already – but I saw this the other day and realized it might be helpful if someone wanted to use CSS with their wxPython Apps – its a library that allows you to ‘skin’ your application and I can think of a dozen neat ways to use it already – here is a link in lieu of a more well thought out question 🙂

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Answer 1

Maybe something like this? You can scale any wx.Window in this way. Not sure if this is exactly what you mean though.

import wx

def scale(widget, percentage):
    font = widget.GetFont()
    font.SetPointSize(int(font.GetPointSize() * percentage / 100.0))
    widget.SetFont(font)

class Frame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Frame, self).__init__(None, -1, 'Scaling Fonts')
        panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        for i in range(50, 201, 25):
            widget = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, 'Scale Factor = %d' % i)
            scale(widget, i)
            sizer.Add(widget, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
        panel.SetSizer(sizer)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = wx.PySimpleApp()
    frame = Frame()
    frame.Show()
    app.MainLoop()