Weight

Applies to

Controls that can display text

Description

The Weight property specifies the stroke weight of the text in the control.

Usage

In a painter

To set the stroke weight of all text in a control:

  • Display the Font tab page of the control's Properties view and select the Bold check box, or select the control and then click the B button on the StyleBar.

To set the stroke weight of a text object in a graph control:

  1. Display the Text tab page of the graph control's Properties view and select the desired text object from the Text Object list box.

  2. Select the Bold check box.

In scripts

The Weight property takes an integer value. 400 indicates a normal weight and 700 indicates a bold weight. The following example sets the text labels of the tab pages of a tab control to bold:

tab_1.Weight = 700