Refining a Font Menu

[Scott Rossi]

AFAIK, you can only grab a list of available fonts.

Regarding jumping to the first typed letter and automatic scrolling, I believe you want to set the menuHistory property.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Apr 7, 2015, at 9:12 AM, tbodine <bodine at bodinetraininggames.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> I have a font menu built with a pull-down type button that works fine, but
> the number of system fonts makes finding one a chore for the user. I have
> three refinements in mind, but I'm not sure if they are possible. 
> 
> 1) Is it possible to get a fonts list from the system (or parse one) that
> results in a fonts list of font family names with branching submenus for
> each family's variations? 
> 
> 2) Can a pull-down menu jump to the first item on the list that starts with
> a letter the user has typed?
> 
> 3) When the pull down menu is triggered, I'd like it to automatically scroll
> to the position of the currently selected font. But my method for that
> failed: get the line # of the the current font name, multiply that by the
> formattedHeight of line 1 of button "Fonts" [that's what triggers error
> "Object does not have this property"], then set the vscroll of button
> "Fonts" to the pixel count.)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. (BTW, this is for Mac and Windows,
> not mobile.)
> 
> Tom Bodine
> 
> 
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