How to Display Font Face Previews in Option Menu?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Dec 6 01:22:37 EST 2003


There isn't an easy way to do this natively in Transcript.  You could
craete a very complicated menu stack with a button for each font name
and set its textFont accordingly, but that would be problematic when it
got to be larger than the height of the screen.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently using the fontNames() to show a list of fonts 
> in the system. How do I display the font face previews within 
> the option menu?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Shishi
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