Ken, Very nice explanation and solution for dealing with the fontStyles and textFont.
Thanks -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> >> Doing a 'Get Info' for those fonts, they all come up with names like this: >> >> Myriad Pro-Cond >> Myriad Pro-Bold >> Myriad Pro-Italic >> etc... >> >> Using my calibrated eye, the hyphen between 'Myriad Pro' and 'Cond' >> looks like an em-dash. Could that break things? >> >> Has anyone else seen this problem? (bonus: anyone have a work around?) > > It's not a bug, technically, but an idiosyncracy of working with mobile - > this is referenced loosely in the iOS Deployment Release Notes (page 13), but > here's the skinny: > > Fonts are assigned using the internal font name of a specific weight of a > font (like "AmericanTypewriter-CondensedLight"), but that is not in "the > fontNames"; it's in "the fontStyles" for a specific font, so to verify that > you are setting a font properly, you have to check the fontStyles of every > font. > > For example, you can set the textFont of a field in the IDE to "Palatino", > but when you move the app to iOS, the textFont of the field is actually > "Palatino-Roman", which is one of the fontStyles of the Palatino font. > > So for your app, if you want to display the different weights of the font, on > iOS you'd say: > > put the fontStyles("Myriad Pro",0) into tFontWeights > > … which would give you back "Myriad Pro-Cond", "Myriad Pro-Bold", etc. > > What I've done for my application is to create a lookup table that I store in > a custom property of my stack that maps these "weights" to names I want to > have appear in a font menu. So for example, you could have: > > Myriad Pro-Cond = Myriad Pro Condensed > Myriad Pro-Bold = Myriad Pro Bold > (etc.) > > and then when someone picks "Myriad Pro Condensed" from the font menu, you do > the lookup, find out that the weight is actually "Myriad Pro-Cond" and > execute: > > set the textfont of <whatever> to "Myriad Pro-Cond" > > A pain, but it works… > > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: k...@sonsothunder.com > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
