Android Question using a special font in my app

[solved] cannot create b4xFont

Try for a while to draw text to a canvas. Issue is the font object. Erel writes in https://www.b4x.com/guides/B4xXUI/?page=20 xLabelFont = xui.CreateDefaultFont(16) But I have no XUI-class, although the XUI-Lib (and XUI Views)is loaded I declared it: Dim fnt As B4XFont fnt=xui... does not...

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Andrew (Digitwell) said:

Simple, I use non standard fonts all the time.

Add the font into your assets folder, like any other asset.



Then assuming your view is a b4xfont

B4X:

' if your view is a standard view, like label

lbl.typeface = typeface.loadfromAsset("fontname")

'if your view is a b4xview
lbl.font = xui.createfont(typeface.loadfromAsset("fontname"),<size of font>)

edited for clarity.

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Andrew (Digitwell) said:

Show More of your code please

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Andrew (Digitwell) said:

My mistake, the actual command has a "s" on the end "loadfromassets". I was typing from memory.

Also you need the full filename of the font file including any extension.

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Zeev Goldstein said:

Spinner has no font property

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Dim MyList As List
    MyList.Initialize
    MyList.AddAll(Array  ("Monday","tuesday","Friday","test2", "Zeev"))
    Dim myFont As Typeface = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("mtcorsva.ttf")   'use your font file
    Dim cs As CSBuilder
    For i = 0 To MyList.Size -1
        Spinner1.Addall(Array(cs.Initialize.Size(30).color(Colors.Red).Typeface(myFont).Append(MyList.Get(i)).PopAll))
    Next

Mahares said:

Here is an example where you can use csbuilder and your font file:

B4X:

Dim MyList As List
    MyList.Initialize
    MyList.AddAll(Array  ("Monday","tuesday","Friday","test2", "Zeev"))
    Dim myFont As Typeface = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("mtcorsva.ttf")   'use your font file
    Dim cs As CSBuilder
    For i = 0 To MyList.Size -1
        Spinner1.Addall(Array(cs.Initialize.Size(30).color(Colors.Red).Typeface(myFont).Append(MyList.Get(i)).PopAll))
    Next

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Zeev Goldstein said:

Thanks, will try

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Mahares said:

No need to answer until you try it. This way we know whether it helped you or not. This snapshot is based on the font file I used. Yours will of course look differently. Also, don't forget about B4XComboBox a xross platform spinner if you want to venture using it
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