From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T06:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Incorrect return of the TkFont configure instance method when no value

Try

      require 'tk'
      font = TkFont.new
      size = font.size #=> 12 (on my system)

Regards, Morton

On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:09 AM, Lionel MAIAUX wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I already posted this question to the ruby-core mailing-list, but  
> as I received no answer, I suppose that it was not the right place :-)
>
> I would like to get the size of a TkFont.
> It could be done with something like ...
>
> require 'tk'
> font = TkFont.new...
> ...
> size = font.configure :size
>
> ... as it is descibed in the Tk documentation (configure with an  
> attribute without a value get the value of this attribute).
>
> Unfortunately, this code returns the font object instead of the  
> size attribute.
> It is confirmed in the configure_core_tk8x method in ext/tk/lib/tk/ 
> font.rb file (line 1328) :
>
> def configure_core_tk8x(font, slot, value=None)
> ...
> self
> end
>
> So my question : is it a bug or there is another (specific ruby)  
> way to get the font attributes ?