Using system fonts?

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• mykyl66 Member

  March 2012

  Would be nice. I hate making bitmap fonts. Not my cup of tea at all.
  
  Mike

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2012

  @Magnusviri
  Different systems might have different fonts installed, so it is better to use your own font files.
  
  @mykyl66 Why not use TTF fonts?

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012

  As a side note, using system fonts have some technical difficulties: iOS doesn't allow accessing to the system font data and each platform (iOS and Android) render fonts differently. Therefore we're rendering the fonts using FreeType so that on every platform it looks the same.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• Magnusviri Member

  March 2012

  Fair enough. Using a ttf isn't hard so I'll just do that.

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• Zoyt Member

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  But... But... What about Emoji! I might hack into the iOS simulator and post the fonts for you guys. ¿¿uʍopǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʇnoqɐ ʇɐɥʍ ɹO Ⓞⓡ ⓦⓘⓣⓗ ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓢ??

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• Magnusviri Member

  March 2012

  I agree that it would be cool, but I am on atilim's side that there has to be priorities and this shouldn't really be one of them (unless it was easy, which I guess is what I was asking). Upside-down can be achieved by rotating the textfield sprite 180 degrees. Circles can be done with a custom font.

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  totally agree on @Magnusviri. On the other hand, if .ttf file contains upside down characters (glyphs), then they should be rendered without any problem.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  Also when I look this thread on my Android phone, these characters aren't rendered correctly. Don't count on system fonts. hehe
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• mykyl66 Member

  March 2012

  That's what you get for going android.
  
  Mike

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• MikeHart Guru

  March 2012

  But... But... What about Emoji! I might hack into the iOS simulator and post the fonts for you guys. ¿¿uʍopǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʇnoqɐ ʇɐɥʍ ɹO Ⓞⓡ ⓦⓘⓣⓗ ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓢ??

  No need to hack, there are countless apps that display the system fonts on iOS and Android just fine.

  http://michaelhartlef.carbonmade.com

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• Magnusviri Member

  March 2012

  Last night I was playing with the uikit.mm plugin and it can display the system fonts, so there is even less need for Gideros to support it.

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