PyQt5 font dialog
PyQt5 comes with a font dialog that you may have seen in a text editor. To open this dialog import QFontDialog call:
QFontDialog.getFont()
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PyQt5 font dialog The example below opens a font dialog on a button event, the selected font (font family including size) will be returned as a string.
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QFontDialog
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSlot
class App(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.title = 'PyQt5 font dialog - pythonspot.com'
self.left = 10
self.top = 10
self.width = 320
self.height = 200
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
self.setWindowTitle(self.title)
self.setGeometry(self.left, self.top, self.width, self.height)
button = QPushButton('Open PyQt5 Font Dialog', self)
button.setToolTip('font dialog')
button.move(50,50)
button.clicked.connect(self.on_click)
self.show()
@pyqtSlot()
def on_click(self):
print('PyQt5 button click')
openFontDialog(self)
def openFontDialog(self):
font, ok = QFontDialog.getFont()
if ok:
print(font.toString())
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = App()
sys.exit(app.exec_())