Control Font in tkMessageBox

Question

I would to like to control the font of the text on a tkMessageBox but I can\'t see any reference of such a stuff. Is it only implemented in Tkinter?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can configure the font for just dialog boxes by doing the following:

from Tkinter import *
import tkMessageBox
r = Tk()
r.option_add('*Dialog.msg.font', 'Helvetica 12')
tkMessageBox.showinfo(message='Hello')

(Only the option_add invocation is modified from the accepted answer.)

Answer 2

The following works here. You will need to change the second argument of option to the font type and font size you want.

 from Tkinter import *
 import tkMessageBox
 r = Tk()
 r.option_add('*font', 'Helvetica -12')
 tkMessageBox.showinfo(message='Hello')

You may have to call r.option_clear() to clear it afterwards.

See here for more information about setting the font of other Tkinter widgets.

This doesn't work with tkMessageBox because tkCommonDialog doesn't take the font option.

Answer 3

option_add may only work for linux operating systems, but you can control font, where the lines wrap, and the width of the box:

    root.option_add('*Dialog.msg.font', 'Helvetica 24')
    root.master.option_add('*Dialog.msg.width', 34)
    root.master.option_add("*Dialog.msg.wrapLength", "6i")