Roku Developer Program

[squirreltown]

In the SDk, customvideoplayer, there is an external font "caps". Sort of a Roman serif type.
If you load the example, you see that indeed, the font you get is different from the standard Gotham Narrow the Roku uses - but its not "caps" its sort of a light Helvetica.

In fact , any font you register shows as this light Helvetica, not the font type you register.
You can actually remove the registered font from your package completely, the app wont error, and will still show the light Helvetica - you can even style it.
Removing the fontRegistry code gets you back to standard Gotham Narrow.

Whats going on with this?

[squirreltown]

Ok, I'll try this a different way. Anybody out there successfully registering and using external fonts, and if so does your syntax differ from the code below?
Thanks

	fontReg = CreateObject("roFontRegistry")
		fontReg.Register("pkg:/fonts/caps.otf")
		font = fontReg.Get("caps",28,50,true)
		
		text = {
        	Text: "test",
        	TextAttrs:{Color:"#960404", Font:font,
        	HAlign:"Left", VAlign:"Top", Direction:"LeftToRight"}
			TargetRect:{x:50, y:20, w:700, h:100}}

[TheEndless]

Are you sure "caps" is the registered font name? Print the results of "fontReg.GetFamilies()" to the console to see the registered font names. It won't necessarily match the name of the file.

Oh, and to answer your question, yes I've used custom fonts successfully an numerous channels. Your syntax looks correct for use on an roImageCanvas.

[squirreltown]

Thank You theEndless, thats a start, I'll investigate.

Edit - Ok it took exactly two minutes to confirm you were right about the name thing and to make the font work. The actual name for "caps" in the SDK is "LMRoman10-Caps". I was thrown off the track by the fact that the SDK lists it as "lmroman10 caps" which doesn't work, so getting the console check was the solution.

[RokuMarkn]

The name of the font should be case insensitive. I tried the customvideoplayer sample and I don't see any difference in appearance whether the name of the font is "lmroman10-caps" or "LMRoman10-Caps". I notice that you gave the original name with the dash replaced with a space -- was that a typo in your post or did you change it in the source?

--Mark

[squirreltown]

typo is in the source file in the SDK

[RokuMarkn]

Ah you're right. This has been fixed internally so the version I was looking at has the correct name.

--Mark