Fonts on Android

[Dan Friedman]

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" <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net> 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
    rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dan Friedman [mailto:dan at clearvisiontech.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:54 PM
    To: rdimola at 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" <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net> 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
        rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
        
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at 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
        
         
        
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