site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcxZUhMgQG80S14m7EiklSC2Hm5D4Q== Thread-topic: Providing a font menu User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.24.0.100205 On 12/08/2011 10:06 pm, the Pro-Apps-Dev list sent a message to me that included:
Thanks for the suggestions Darrin but I don't think the user experience would be good enough. Users who are familiar with the font menus on title templates would expect the font menu of a text generator to work in the same way.
Given the sensitivity about ugly UI design, it seems ironic that we would have to resort to non-standard workarounds to create a font menu in FCPX. It's frustrating that what we could do with FxScript isn't possible with FxPlug 2. I never imagined for a moment, that would be the case.
Off to file that feature request now!
Perhaps the Motion team could create (in their copious free time) a special FxPlug-based generator that can display a current font menu that can be published to Final Cut Pro X. In turn in has some fields that can be linked by parameter behaviours to other values in a Motion project - including an instance of a developer plug-in. The generator itself doesn't need to display anything in Motion or FCPX. The font menu could set values in the fields, and the fields could even set the selected font in the font menu. Would this be useful in this case? Alex ............................................................................ Screenwriter, Zone 2-North West, London alex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com