Re: Font Style Names for iPhone/iPad
Re: Font Style Names for iPhone/iPad
- Subject: Re: Font Style Names for iPhone/iPad
- From: Gordon Apple <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:09:45 -0500
- Thread-topic: Font Style Names for iPhone/iPad
Thanks. That did it. I just needed a display name. I used the following
when loading the picker view:
- (NSString*)styleNameForIndex:(NSUInteger)index
inFontFamily:(NSString*)famName {
NSString* fontName = [[UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:famName]
objectAtIndex:index];
CTFontRef fontRef = CTFontCreateWithName((CFStringRef)fontName, 0.0,
NULL);
CFStringRef style = CTFontCopyName(fontRef, kCTFontStyleNameKey);
CFRelease(fontRef);
return [(NSString*)style autorelease];
}
My first shot at a FontPicker subclass of UIPickerView was almost as wide as
the iPad. After moving to a two-line UILabel and using the short style
names, I've got it slimmed down to being usable on an iPhone.
BTW, general info in case anybody is interested -- If you are going to use
dependent columns in a UIPickerView, the only way I could figure out to do
it is to use a timer to poll it for changes in the primary column so you can
reload the dependent column.
On 4/12/10 5:15 PM, "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Gordon Apple <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks for the response, but that is what I have now and am trying to get
>> away from. I want ³normal², ³bold² and ³Italic², not ³Veranda²,
>> ³Veranda-Bold² and ³Veranda-Italic² for the secondary list. In many cases
>> it might be possible to strip the font Family name, but the font naming
>> convention is not consistent. Some even use contractions. If you look at
>> the font list in Pages on the iPad, it does what I want.
>
> Ah, in that case you're going to need to do a little bit more work.
> But CTFont does everything you need. Take a look at
> kCTFontStyleNameKey and friends.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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