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    [LOGGED] Text Draw "font" Input Parameter Easier to Change

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    • Woland
      Woland Tech Staff last edited by Woland

      Hello all,

      Right now there's no fast way to scroll through the different fonts in the Text Draw actor; you can only click > get the menu, click > get the submenu, click > select.

      I would love to be able to scroll through to see different fonts more quickly.

      If the "font" input parameter accepted integers (as many other text-based Input Parameters do), one could use a counter, or other math-based actors to quickly recall different fonts via programming without having to use a Trigger Text actor for each desired font, or a Selector with multiple fonts set as the inputs.

      Sound interesting to anybody else?

      Submitted this already.

      Best wishes,

      Woland

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        RIL last edited by

        Yes it sounds interesting of course !!

        Best,

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        • DusX
          DusX Tech Staff last edited by

          I have thousands of fonts... and these menus have always been a problem for me.

          I don't care much for the integer option. Since I want to know exactly what I am selecting, and will never know if it's numeric.

          An improved selection list would be nice, but also a Font trigger actor (like trigger text) would be great. So the font could be selected on the input side rather than having to type it in (some font names are not that easy).

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          • mark_m
            mark_m @Woland last edited by

            @woland @DusX 

            Thousands of fonts is always a problem.
            The Adobe programs now let you "favourite" fonts and can just show you that small list. It's a great little tweak. Maybe that's a possibility for this idea.

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              DusX Tech Staff @mark_m last edited by

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              I generally use font managers to do the same thing, but currently haven't found a tool I like for win 10.

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              • Notdoc
                Notdoc @Woland last edited by

                @woland

                bumping this up again. Unless I'm missing something, there still isn't an easy way to automate font changes in the Text Draw Actor.

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                • jfg
                  jfg @Notdoc last edited by

                  @notdoc:

                  I would use something like that:

                  Best regards, 

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                  • Notdoc
                    Notdoc @jfg last edited by

                    @jfg thanks for this. I have been using the Table Actor with Shuffle in a similar way. There's no escaping the task of typing all the individual fonts in before making the selection, though, is there? Not a terrible hardship, but very time-consuming.

                    I guess the Read Text from File Actor could also pump font names into the Text Draw Actor, if there was a way of generating a text file of all the fonts on the computer...

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                    • Woland
                      Woland Tech Staff @Notdoc last edited by

                      @notdoc said:

                      if there was a way of generating a text file of all the fonts on the computer

                       The beta Python actor would be my first port of call for attempting this

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                      • Notdoc
                        Notdoc @Woland last edited by

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                        thanks but erm... *blushes* - i can't really code... :-[ 

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                        • jfg
                          jfg @Notdoc last edited by

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                          I don't need to type all the names:

                          but not so easy with 1000 fonts

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                          • Notdoc
                            Notdoc @jfg last edited by Notdoc

                            @jfg hehe that's a step better than the Table Actor task.

                            - so I've got as far as bulk copying all the file names from my fonts folder, but the Text Actor won't read the ".ttf" etc file types, so i have to delete them. There is no rest for the wicked, as they say. Unless anyone has a smart plan to bulk delete them from the text document..?

                            on reflection, @jfg - your version is better. But I was nearly there...

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                            • jfg
                              jfg @Notdoc last edited by

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                              in the Textedit Software: Cmd+F, then activate replace, type the suffix with dot and nothing for replace. Do the same for the other suffix

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                                Notdoc @jfg last edited by

                                @jfg boom. respect, sir

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                                • Woland
                                  Woland Tech Staff @Notdoc last edited by

                                  @notdoc said:

                                  thanks but erm... *blushes* - i can't really code... :-[ 

                                   Neither can I really, but between our very generous community, Google, Youtube, and ChatGPT, I tend to get by ;)

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                                  • Notdoc
                                    Notdoc @jfg last edited by

                                    @jfg

                                    apologies for pestering on this but i also don't understand how to populate the cells of the Selector Actor in the way you have here, using the Trigger Text input to move the drop-down options over from the Text Draw Actor. I can make this example work, but I can't get it to work with inputs on any other Actors. 

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                                    • Woland
                                      Woland Tech Staff @Notdoc last edited by Woland

                                      @notdoc

                                      Connect the output of a fresh Selector actor to the font input of a Text Draw actor and it'll mutate the inputs of the Selector to the oddball font data type used by the Text Draw's font input.

                                      Gif: https://recordit.co/dZdRtFdtVr

                                      File: mutated-font-selector.izz

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                                      • Notdoc
                                        Notdoc @Woland last edited by

                                        @woland thanks, but i'm specifically curious the way that in @jfg 's example illustrated above the dropdown menu is available within the Selector Actor cell, rather than the Text Draw Actor. It looks like a smart way to make up a useful list from a source without typing in every cell, and I have made his example work, but I can't make it work with anything else. Like (eg) the different voices in the Speak Actor..?

                                        ...hard to describe what i mean, hope it makes sense...

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                                        • Armando
                                          Armando Beta Gold @Woland last edited by

                                          @woland I can't believe that. Never even imagined possible... great

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                                          • Armando
                                            Armando Beta Gold @Armando last edited by

                                            @armando So the only missing thing would be a wysiwyg font list....

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