Android custom fonts in web scroller native control...

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/31/13 1:09 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> As far as I know, custom fonts are loaded with an external and those
> aren't supported on Android yet.
>
> In the 5.5.5 Release Notes:
> http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/5_5_5/LiveCodeNotes-5_5_5-Android.pdf
>
> "In LiveCode 5.5 the ability was introduced to allow applications to bundle
> custom fonts which then
> become available to the app (and only that app) while it is running.  To
> take advantage of this feature, all you need to do is reference the files
> of any fonts you wish to include in the Copy Files pane. These files can
> either be a direct file reference, or contained in one of the folder
> references.  The Standalone Builder will treat any files that end with the
> extension ttf or ttc as font files to use in this way.  Any fonts included
> in this way will appear in the fontNames and can be used in the same way as
> any other font on the system."

Cool. Thanks Roger. It's been a while since I re-read the release notes.

That being the case, the original poster may have found a bug.

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