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ST 4U 204: Changing the Fonts in VA Smalltalk

March 9, 2012 10:34:52.267

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at changing the font used across the tools in VA Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Fonts.

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Today we'll look at changing the default font used across all VA Smalltalk tools. To start, notice the little Aa icon at the far right of the toolbar:

Fonts

Open that, and you'll get a chooser tool for fonts. Select something you would prefer - here we are picking the Impact font. Not because it's a great choice for this, but because the change will be obvious:

Fonts

After you accept the change, all the tools update. Open a few:

New Font

All of your tools now use this font.

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posted by James Robertson

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Re: ST 4U 204: Changing the Fonts in VA Smalltalk

[Bob Nemec] March 9, 2012 11:33:16.282

An especially handy feature if you have more than one VA image open. Set each one to a different font and you know which window belongs to which image.

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