FontMap

class FontMap(**properties: Any)

Superclasses: Object

Implemented Interfaces: ListModel

A PangoFontMap represents the set of fonts available for a particular rendering system.

This is a virtual object with implementations being specific to particular rendering systems.

Methods

class FontMap
changed() → None

Forces a change in the context, which will cause any PangoContext using this fontmap to change.

This function is only useful when implementing a new backend for Pango, something applications won’t do. Backends should call this function if they have attached extra data to the context and such data is changed.

Added in version 1.34.

create_context() → Context

Creates a PangoContext connected to fontmap.

This is equivalent to new followed by set_font_map.

If you are using Pango as part of a higher-level system, that system may have it’s own way of create a PangoContext. For instance, the GTK toolkit has, among others, gtk_widget_get_pango_context(). Use those instead.

Added in version 1.22.

get_family(name: str) → FontFamily

Gets a font family by name.

Added in version 1.46.

Parameters:

name – a family name

get_serial() → int

Returns the current serial number of fontmap.

The serial number is initialized to an small number larger than zero when a new fontmap is created and is increased whenever the fontmap is changed. It may wrap, but will never have the value 0. Since it can wrap, never compare it with “less than”, always use “not equals”.

The fontmap can only be changed using backend-specific API, like changing fontmap resolution.

This can be used to automatically detect changes to a PangoFontMap, like in PangoContext.

Added in version 1.32.4.

list_families() → list[FontFamily]

List all families for a fontmap.

Note that the returned families are not in any particular order.

PangoFontMap also implemented the ListModel interface for enumerating families.

load_font(context: Context, desc: FontDescription) → Font | None

Load the font in the fontmap that is the closest match for desc.

Parameters:

  • context – the PangoContext the font will be used with

  • desc – a PangoFontDescription describing the font to load

load_fontset(context: Context, desc: FontDescription, language: Language) → Fontset | None

Load a set of fonts in the fontmap that can be used to render a font matching desc.

Parameters:

  • context – the PangoContext the font will be used with

  • desc – a PangoFontDescription describing the font to load

  • language – a PangoLanguage the fonts will be used for

Properties

class FontMap
props.item_type: type

The type of items contained in this list.

props.n_items: int

The number of items contained in this list.

Virtual Methods

class FontMap
do_changed() → None

Forces a change in the context, which will cause any PangoContext using this fontmap to change.

This function is only useful when implementing a new backend for Pango, something applications won’t do. Backends should call this function if they have attached extra data to the context and such data is changed.

Added in version 1.34.

do_get_family(name: str) → FontFamily

Gets a font family by name.

Added in version 1.46.

Parameters:

name – a family name

do_get_serial() → int

Returns the current serial number of fontmap.

The serial number is initialized to an small number larger than zero when a new fontmap is created and is increased whenever the fontmap is changed. It may wrap, but will never have the value 0. Since it can wrap, never compare it with “less than”, always use “not equals”.

The fontmap can only be changed using backend-specific API, like changing fontmap resolution.

This can be used to automatically detect changes to a PangoFontMap, like in PangoContext.

Added in version 1.32.4.

do_list_families() → list[FontFamily]

List all families for a fontmap.

Note that the returned families are not in any particular order.

PangoFontMap also implemented the ListModel interface for enumerating families.

do_load_font(context: Context, desc: FontDescription) → Font | None

Load the font in the fontmap that is the closest match for desc.

Parameters:

  • context – the PangoContext the font will be used with

  • desc – a PangoFontDescription describing the font to load

do_load_fontset(context: Context, desc: FontDescription, language: Language) → Fontset | None

Load a set of fonts in the fontmap that can be used to render a font matching desc.

Parameters:

  • context – the PangoContext the font will be used with

  • desc – a PangoFontDescription describing the font to load

  • language – a PangoLanguage the fonts will be used for

Fields

class FontMap
parent_instance