Re: Fonts on Android

2019-08-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
w regular". This would not allow them to operate as a family. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: Dan Friedman [mailto:d...@clearvisiontech.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:54 PM T

Re: Fonts on Android

2019-08-28 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: Dan Friedman [mailto:d...@clearvisiontech.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:54 PM To: rdim...@evergreeninfo.net; 'How to use LiveCode' Subject: Re: Fonts on Android Ralph, Than

RE: Fonts on Android

2019-08-28 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
family. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: Dan Friedman [mailto:d...@clearvisiontech.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:54 PM To: rdim...@evergreeninfo.net; 'How to use LiveCode' Subject: Re: Fonts on Android

Re: Fonts on Android

2019-08-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I thought the engine was supposed to do this automatically. If a bold version of the font is available, it should be substituted by name. On 8/27/19 5:53 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Only thing I can think to do is to run thought EVERY object in my project and set the textFont of th

Re: Fonts on Android

2019-08-27 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Ralph, Thank you for the reply. But, I don’t see how this helps. I have two fonts: Barlow-Bold.ttf Barlow-Regular.ttf After running FontInfo(), I see this: *Barlow Bold bold *Barlow Regular plain When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Bold.

RE: Fonts on Android

2019-08-27 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
When I run into this problem I use the routine below to enumerate all the fonts and their styles. If you have both a "Plain" and "Bold" style for a font then you use the font name and set its style to "Bold" If you use a "bold" base font then its "plain" style IS the bold font and setting its style