How to get Monospace Font in Qt

[mikaellaine]

Hi! Does anyone know how to get a monospace font in Qt, on S60.

I've tried QFont("Courier"), but that does not return a Courier font on a Nokia 5530.

If there is no way to explicitly get a monospace font, could someone say which monospace font is guaranteed to be present on Nokia S60 phones?

Thanks in advance!

[danhicksbyron]

Fonts are device-specific. The attached mini-app will display the available fonts on your device. (Note that there will be significant differences between simulator/emulator/device.)

[teknikko]

FontDemo on my E71 (S60 3rd Ed. FP1) device shows this in case with available fonts :



But had to change source code a little bit in E71's case, that device is able
to show the whole form on it's sceen :

//w.showFullScreen();
w.showMaximized();

[danhicksbyron]

Yeah, the app's a quick hack -- certainly not "production" quality. It was just written to get the job done.

[mikaellaine]

Thanks a lot for the replies, guys. That's somewhat sad news. Apparently there is no monospace font guaranteed to be present, which I find hard to believe is the final word on this topic.
But thanks again!

[bobford]

I also needed a monospace font and ended up using things like:
QString space(" ");
QFontMetrics result = fontMetrics();
int spaceWidth = result.width(space);
where "space" could be any string