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From: palmtcl on 24 Jun 2008 07:50
With ActiveTcl 8.5.2 on XP SP2, doing

font actual TkDefaultFont

from within base-tk8.5-thread-win32-ix86.exe

returns Tahoma 10...

The same command using the wish85 in the same distribution returns
Tahoma 8 (as seems to be defined in Tip145).

Where are these named fonts defined? I could only find them
initialized in ttk/fonts.tcl and there seem to be no related
differences in basekit version of that file compared to the non-
basekit version in tcl/lib/tk8.5/ttk.

/Ashok
From: Pat Thoyts on 25 Jun 2008 17:54
"palmtcl(a)yahoo.com" <palmtcl(a)yahoo.com> writes:

>With ActiveTcl 8.5.2 on XP SP2, doing
>
>font actual TkDefaultFont
>
>from within base-tk8.5-thread-win32-ix86.exe
>
>returns Tahoma 10...
>
>The same command using the wish85 in the same distribution returns
>Tahoma 8 (as seems to be defined in Tip145).
>
>Where are these named fonts defined? I could only find them
>initialized in ttk/fonts.tcl and there seem to be no related
>differences in basekit version of that file compared to the non-
>basekit version in tcl/lib/tk8.5/ttk.
>
>/Ashok

On Windows tkWinFont.c has code (TkWinSetupSystemFonts) that reads the
SystemParametersInfo data and configures these fonts according to the
results provided by that system call.
The same happens on Mac's. For unix, we make some sensible assignments
in library/ttk/fonts.tcl

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