setting the font in Tkinter

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:06:26 GMT in comp.lang.python, jepler epler wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:47:11 GMT, Rick Pasotto <rickp at telocity.com>
> wrote:
> >>How do I set the default font for a window and all its widgets? The
> >>system default is too small.
> 
> You should be able to use the 'option' tk command.  It's documented
> (somewhat obscurely) in the tk manual.  In tk, this would be written
> 	option *Font {helvetica -24}  # Make most fonts Helvetica 24pt
> 	option *Button*Font {Times -24} # Make button fonts Times 24pt
> and in Python you can write it:
> 	from Tkinter import *
> 	app = Tk()
> 	app.tk.call("option", "*Font", "Helvetica -24")
> 	app.tk.call("option", "*Button*Font", "Times -24")
> The font selection will take effect for widgets created *after* the
> tk calls.
> 
> I've only checked this on a Unix version of Python, but ISTR that this works
> for Windows apps too.  Good luck!

This didn't work for me on linux. I got from the traceback:

    root.tk.call("option","*Font","Helvetica -24")
	TclError: bad option "*Font": must be add, clear, get, or readfile

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