[JW Lua] Common Dialogs

[Charles O. Lawrence]

Thanks Jan,
I did not recall that you had already made such a request.  As you suggest,
I had already thought of trying to make one myself using the new JW Lua
features for dialogs, but if there was a "common dialog"  already provided
for font selection, either by the OS or Finale (PDK), it would be best to
use it, before making the effort to build my own.

-----Original Message-----
From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of Jan Angermüller
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 3:53 AM
To: The JW Lua script plug-in. <jwlua at jwmusic.nu>
Subject: Re: [JW Lua] Common Dialogs

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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