Hi All: I just spent two hours with a colleague trying to track down why a custom font wasn't rendering correctly on iOS, and apparently it seems that something changed with either the way LiveCode 7 or iOS 8 handles font names.
It used to be that grabbing the installed name of a font on iOS was all that was needed to get a custom font to work, but now it seems one has to manually combine the font name and any desired style/s into a string separated by a dash: Installed name = American Typewriter Condensed Bold becomes -------> AmericanTypewriter-CondensedBold I know about the fontStyles function, but that only appears to return available styles for font, it doesn't return a properly formatted fontName. Looking up font related terms/issues in the docs, forums, and mail list I haven't seen any reference to this anywhere. Is this documented, and even more importantly, is there a function or script to automate this so we don't have to maintain a stored list of styles and compare/replace words in the font name? I'm also worried about what caused this change: is this a LiveCode change or an iOS change? An iOS change would seem to mean that we need to code around the system version to handle older versions of iOS. Thanks for any info/advice here. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design _______________________________________________ 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
