[JW Lua] Common Dialogs

[Jan Angermüller]

Hi Chris and Charles,

the font dialog is already on the wish list. Below is a mail from July.
One day later Jari released a beta with FCStrings:LoadSystemFontNames() 
added, but unfortunately no dialog yet. I don't know if the Finale PDK 
offers a "standard font dialog" ... probably not, otherwise it would 
have been easy for Jari to implement.
But it should be possible to create such a dialog manually with the new 
JW Lua dialog elements.

Jan

Am 08.07.2015 um 13:39 schrieb Jan Angermüller:
> Jari,
>
> a feature request: could you please add an FCSelectFontDialog() class 
> or an FCUI:DisplayFontDialog() method that opens up the standard 
> Finale font selection dialog ? I.e. with font name from the list of 
> installed fonts, size, typeface, baseline, tracking, superscript and 
> the effect options. The dialog execution would then return an 
> FCString() with all enigma tags set according to the selection.
>
> Or as a quick workaround if the font dialog is not provided by the PDK:
> could you provide a method that lists all installed fonts ? Currently 
> FCUI:IsFontAvailable() makes it possible to check if a certain font is 
> installed, but not to list which (unknown) fonts are installed.
>
> Best regards,
> Jan
>
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