New Way To Deal With Custom Fonts on iOS?

[Chris Sheffield]

Scott,

Could this possibly be related to this issue bug 14116 <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14116>?

Mark W. stated in a comment there that the screen loading times may have something to do with a change in the way that fonts were handled between LC 6.6 and LC 6.7. I wonder if the issue you described is related somehow. Maybe it’s also caused by this change to using CoreText in iOS. Specifically, see his comment from February 27.

Chris



> On Apr 14, 2015, at 1:27 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode