How to manage different font names like CSS ?

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Low-level UI infrastructure & framework for Pharo

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How to manage different font names like CSS ? #222

Open labordep opened 1 year ago

labordep commented 1 year ago

Hi, is it possible to manage font name like CSS ?

For example :

ropedText := '' asRopedText.
ropedText defaultFontName: #('SFMono-Regular', 'Consolas', 'Liberation Mono', 'Menlo', 'Courier', 'monospace').

This function is to select the good (and installed) font depending of the target system. We should send a collection with different font name, and Bloc can automatically select the first supported font.

We need this function for Toplo :)

tinchodias commented 1 year ago

I opened similar issue at number #185 Options include:

implement our own API at Alexandrie font manager that detects the first available... for exact font name is not hard and "monospace" could be a default that's included in a local resource, like... deployed with the Pharo app.
Create FFI bindings to fontconfig, a library done for this purpose, that works well with freetype and cairo.