Re: Fonts on Android
Droid Sans is available on all Android phones and was the system font for years. Newer versions of Android use Roboto. Both are available for download so you can install them on desktop to see how they'll look. They both support all styles and weights and also unicode. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On August 28, 2019 9:42:06 AM Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Ralph, The font came from Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow). I would think its ok. FWIW... I am just looking for a Helvetica-like font. I have my project set to the default fonts "(system)". But it looks like crap on Android! So, I'm just looking for something that will look good and render correctly. I will need a regular, bold and italic. -Dan On 8/28/19, 5:34 AM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: >After running FontInfo(), I see this: > >*Barlow Bold >bold >*Barlow Regular >Plain What I would have expected is: *Barlow bold plain Then it would work as expected. >When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Bold. >When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Regular. This is because the OS is seeing these as 2 different fonts. Are the results of FontInfo() on the IDE or the Android device? I have seen oddities like this when the internal font name is wrong/inconsistent or (for example)the regular version was created at a later date and the original name was "Barlow bold" and there was no other option than to name the new plain font to "Barlow 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 To: rdim...@evergreeninfo.net; 'How to use LiveCode' Subject: Re: Fonts on Android 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. When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Regular. Only thing I can think to do is to run thought EVERY object in my project and set the textFont of that control to "Barlow Bold" or "Barlow Regular". Then there's text fields with mixed text... Do I run through every text field and change the font of all bold text? There has to be a way to map "Barlow Regular" to plain text, and "Barlow Bold" to bold text. I must be missing something. -Dan On 8/27/19, 3:07 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: 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 to "Bold" will do nothing. function FontInfo local fnames,fstyles,tlist put the fontnames into fnames sort fnames repeat for each line tfnt in fnames put "*"&tfnt&cr after tlist put the fontstyles(tfnt,0) into fstyles repeat for each line tsty in fstyles put space & tsty & cr after tlist end repeat end repeat delete char -1 in tlist return tlist end FontInfo Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:11 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: Fonts on Android Greetings! I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android device. But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is "myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I call: set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont" It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first alphabetically)
Re: Fonts on Android
Ralph,
The font came from Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow). I
would think its ok.
FWIW... I am just looking for a Helvetica-like font. I have my project set to
the default fonts "(system)". But it looks like crap on Android! So, I'm just
looking for something that will look good and render correctly. I will need a
regular, bold and italic.
-Dan
On 8/28/19, 5:34 AM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote:
>After running FontInfo(), I see this:
>
>*Barlow Bold
>bold
>*Barlow Regular
>Plain
What I would have expected is:
*Barlow
bold
plain
Then it would work as expected.
>When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow", everything (bold or not)
comes up as Barlow Bold.
>When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or
not) comes up as Barlow Regular.
This is because the OS is seeing these as 2 different fonts.
Are the results of FontInfo() on the IDE or the Android device?
I have seen oddities like this when the internal font name is
wrong/inconsistent or (for example)the regular version was created at a later
date and the original name was "Barlow bold" and there was no other option than
to name the new plain font to "Barlow 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
To: rdim...@evergreeninfo.net; 'How to use LiveCode'
Subject: Re: Fonts on Android
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.
When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or
not) comes up as Barlow Regular.
Only thing I can think to do is to run thought EVERY object in my project
and set the textFont of that control to "Barlow Bold" or "Barlow Regular".
Then there's text fields with mixed text... Do I run through every text field
and change the font of all bold text? There has to be a way to map "Barlow
Regular" to plain text, and "Barlow Bold" to bold text. I must be missing
something.
-Dan
On 8/27/19, 3:07 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote:
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 to "Bold" will do nothing.
function FontInfo
local fnames,fstyles,tlist
put the fontnames into fnames
sort fnames
repeat for each line tfnt in fnames
put "*"&tfnt&cr after tlist
put the fontstyles(tfnt,0) into fstyles
repeat for each line tsty in fstyles
put space & tsty & cr after tlist
end repeat
end repeat
delete char -1 in tlist
return tlist
end FontInfo
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
-Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On
Behalf
Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:11 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Dan Friedman
Subject: Fonts on Android
Greetings!
I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android
device.
But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is
"myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I
call:
set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont"
It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first
alphabetically). Is there a way to map a font to a style so that text
is "
myfont-Regular" and bold text is "myfont-bold"?
Thanks in advance,
-Dan
RE: Fonts on Android
>After running FontInfo(), I see this: > >*Barlow Bold >bold >*Barlow Regular >Plain What I would have expected is: *Barlow bold plain Then it would work as expected. >When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow", everything (bold or not) comes up >as Barlow Bold. >When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or not) >comes up as Barlow Regular. This is because the OS is seeing these as 2 different fonts. Are the results of FontInfo() on the IDE or the Android device? I have seen oddities like this when the internal font name is wrong/inconsistent or (for example)the regular version was created at a later date and the original name was "Barlow bold" and there was no other option than to name the new plain font to "Barlow 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 To: rdim...@evergreeninfo.net; 'How to use LiveCode' Subject: Re: Fonts on Android 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. When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Regular. Only thing I can think to do is to run thought EVERY object in my project and set the textFont of that control to "Barlow Bold" or "Barlow Regular". Then there's text fields with mixed text... Do I run through every text field and change the font of all bold text? There has to be a way to map "Barlow Regular" to plain text, and "Barlow Bold" to bold text. I must be missing something. -Dan On 8/27/19, 3:07 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: 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 to "Bold" will do nothing. function FontInfo local fnames,fstyles,tlist put the fontnames into fnames sort fnames repeat for each line tfnt in fnames put "*"&tfnt&cr after tlist put the fontstyles(tfnt,0) into fstyles repeat for each line tsty in fstyles put space & tsty & cr after tlist end repeat end repeat delete char -1 in tlist return tlist end FontInfo Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:11 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: Fonts on Android Greetings! I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android device. But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is "myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I call: set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont" It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first alphabetically). Is there a way to map a font to a style so that text is " myfont-Regular" and bold text is "myfont-bold"? Thanks in advance, -Dan ___ 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
Re: Fonts on Android
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 that control to "Barlow Bold" or "Barlow Regular". Then there's text fields with mixed text... Do I run through every text field and change the font of all bold text? There has to be a way to map "Barlow Regular" to plain text, and "Barlow Bold" to bold text. I must be missing something. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
Re: Fonts on Android
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. When I set the font of my stack to "Barlow Regular", everything (bold or not) comes up as Barlow Regular. Only thing I can think to do is to run thought EVERY object in my project and set the textFont of that control to "Barlow Bold" or "Barlow Regular". Then there's text fields with mixed text... Do I run through every text field and change the font of all bold text? There has to be a way to map "Barlow Regular" to plain text, and "Barlow Bold" to bold text. I must be missing something. -Dan On 8/27/19, 3:07 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: 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 to "Bold" will do nothing. function FontInfo local fnames,fstyles,tlist put the fontnames into fnames sort fnames repeat for each line tfnt in fnames put "*"&tfnt&cr after tlist put the fontstyles(tfnt,0) into fstyles repeat for each line tsty in fstyles put space & tsty & cr after tlist end repeat end repeat delete char -1 in tlist return tlist end FontInfo Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:11 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: Fonts on Android Greetings! I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android device. But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is "myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I call: set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont" It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first alphabetically). Is there a way to map a font to a style so that text is " myfont-Regular" and bold text is "myfont-bold"? Thanks in advance, -Dan ___ 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
RE: Fonts on Android
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 to "Bold" will do nothing. function FontInfo local fnames,fstyles,tlist put the fontnames into fnames sort fnames repeat for each line tfnt in fnames put "*"&tfnt&cr after tlist put the fontstyles(tfnt,0) into fstyles repeat for each line tsty in fstyles put space & tsty & cr after tlist end repeat end repeat delete char -1 in tlist return tlist end FontInfo Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:11 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: Fonts on Android Greetings! I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android device. But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is "myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I call: set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont" It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first alphabetically). Is there a way to map a font to a style so that text is " myfont-Regular" and bold text is "myfont-bold"? Thanks in advance, -Dan ___ 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
Fonts on Android
Greetings! I am able to get a custom font installed and running on a Android device. But, how do you handle the font family? Included in my app is "myfont-Regular.ttf" and "myfont-bold.ttf". When the app launches, I call: set the textFont of stack "main" to "myfont" It's only using the bold version (probably because it's first alphabetically). Is there a way to map a font to a style so that text is " myfont-Regular" and bold text is "myfont-bold"? Thanks in advance, -Dan ___ 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
