How to increase font size in xcode

[mrab54]

Can somebody please tell me how to increase the font size in xcode? It is at size 10 by default, which is absolutely ridiculously small. However, not as ridiculous as how hard it seems to be to change the font size. When you go to change the font in the preferences, first it asks to to make a copy of a font template so you don't mess up what already is a mess. Then, it looks as though you would have to change the font for every category of text which is around 30 or so. But the great thing is, it wont even let you change the font size! I can't even google an answer in 15 minutes. Not only that, it took me another 5 just to find a forum that actually had more than 100 posts total. My eyes are now burning, my head aching, and I am in serious need of a beer, maybe a six pack, to calm me down.

I wouldn't be surprised if this lengthy post doesn't go through due to some http error, leaving me to write it all over again. Thank God the copy button works, I think.

Thanks.

[Boy_NamDinh]

I use this to change font size

PHP Code:

self.myLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12]; 


Hope this help.

[mrab54]

Originally Posted by Boy_NamDinh

I use this to change font size

PHP Code:

self.myLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12]; 


Hope this help.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not making myself all too clear in my rant. I'm wondering about changing the font inside the xcode ide itself. I find it hard to code when I have to squint to see what I'm doing.

[Boy_NamDinh]

Have you try using zoom on MAC. Go to system preferences -> Universal Access

[Bucky]

There's an option in the preferences somewhere. When I get back to my mac, I'll give a better idea of where to find it

[Kalimba]

Preferences -> Fonts & Colors?

[Bucky]

That's the one! I was at work at the time, so I couldn't check

[zer0]

mrab54 i have the same problem getting in to Xcode liking the IDE it self but then i go to customize the colors and fonts and when i change the font in the preference window, it doesnt update the selected font for some reason in Xcode 3.1.1 on OSX 10.5.6

would love to know how you fixed this!

...Zer0...

[mrab54]

Well I finally came back to it, went into preferences->fonts, changed the font size and it just worked. I did nothing different than from before, so I must have just gotten myself into a bad state where the changes were not getting applied. Thanks for the responses.

[zer0]

Mine still doesn't work let me make sure that i am doing it correctly

Open Xcode
Open preferences
select fonts & colors
select lets say comments out of the list double click the font name
then select the new font size lets say 12 (from 10)
then no thing happens

[mrab54]

Originally Posted by zer0

Mine still doesn't work let me make sure that i am doing it correctly

Open Xcode
Open preferences
select fonts & colors
select lets say comments out of the list double click the font name
then select the new font size lets say 12 (from 10)
then no thing happens

Lol, well yeah that's about what I tried forever and then suddenly it just worked... Something has got to be buggy with it but if there is some secret to it, that has got to be the worst user interface design ever.

[Gottaa]

If you do something in Xcode which doesn't react as you would expect it to, I've learnt to just close and re-open XCode, 99% of the time that fixes things

[aldcorn@live.com]

Xcode>> preferences>> Fonts & Colors TAB>> Choose the color THEME you like in the drop down list and then duplicate the theme. Call it what you want, say "SUNSET 14 font" or whatever.

Now CHOOSE this new theme from the drop down box.
Click on the:
"plain text" line then go down to the "Other Preprocessor Macros" line and SHIFT click to highlight all of the lines that actually have a FONT TYPE AND SIZE.

When you have all of these lines selected you can hit COMMAND T and then select the font type and size to what you want. You should see the changes.

NOW make sure you press APPLY at the bottom of the Xcode Preferences window to save your new selection

[Robert Paulson]

Thanks a lot, aldcorn@live.com!

[onthegrid]

Thanks, aldcorn!