Font chooser

Ignition
1

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to launch a font selection dialog so a user can select a font that will be used for a display. Something that would work like system.gui.choosecolor does for color selection.

Thanks.

2

In parallel to the font chooser question, is there any way to change the mapping of the Java logical fonts (e.g., dialog, monospaced, etc.) from within the Vision module?

3

I’ll see what we can do for a font selector. You should be able to pretty easily do this yourself though. Heres a way to get a list of all the fonts installed on a system, turn them into a dataset, and populate a dropdown with that dataset.

[code]dropdown = event.source.parent.getComponent(“Dropdown”)

from java.awt import GraphicsEnvironment
env = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
fonts = env.getAvailableFontFamilyNames()

headers = [‘Font Name’]
rows = []
for font in fonts:
rows.append([font])

dropdown.data = system.dataset.toDataSet(headers, rows)[/code]

From there you can simple create a new java.awt.Font. Let us know if you go this route and get stuck.

As far as re-mapping the logical fonts: sorry, no. I think this is done by the JVM when starting up and is inaccessible to us.