sig wrote:
> I think it would be better to "hardcode" a small window for
> configuring font paths to let user specify them.. And keep paths list
> in class var and don't care about guessing.  ;)
that would be nice - I would have liked to pick the fonts.

>
> On 21/04/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Stef,
>> > Andrew did you look at sophie? because I had the impression that they
>> > build a lot for font location....
>>
>> Thanks for the heads-up. Yes, I did.
>>
>> The approach I am taking with Windows is to use FFI to get the system
>> fonts
>> folder path if FFI is present, otherwise to guess it.
>>
>> For Linux, the font folder paths are hardcoded.
>>
>> For Mac OS X, I will either hardcode the system font paths, ( and
>> ignore the
>> user font folder for now); or make FFI a prerequisite, and get all
>> the folder
>> paths through FFI. (It will probably be the first approach, which
>> will enable
>> people to use it sooner. And then I'll migrate the FFI stuff over
>> from Sophie
>> later).
>>
>> The windows method is "close enough for jazz", although it should
>> really be
>> going to the Windows Registry to find all the installed fonts, since
>> they don't
>> have to be installed in the system Fonts folder.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> >
>> > Stef
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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