[JW Lua] Common Dialogs

[Jari Williamsson]

Jan/Charles,

I've been working on implementing a font selection dialog. It's very 
straightforward in Windows, but OSX uses a very different approach to 
fonts (the font selection is application shared and it's a modeless 
panel). I've forced the font panel to be modal on the Mac as well, but 
it looks a bit odd and I don't know if there might be any conflicts with 
Finale's font handling.

Perhaps I'll write a modal font selection dialog for the OSX version of 
JW Lua.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson



On 2015-12-29 15:24, Charles O. Lawrence wrote:
> 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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