[Interest] QML and application fonts

[Harri Pasanen]

On 10/11/2014 09:02, Rutledge Shawn wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2014, at 08:30, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been playing with the font support in Qt.
>> In C++ I'm able to define and select a custom application font with
>> font.setFamily("MyCoolFont"),
>> but on the QML side something like
>>
>> Text {
>>      anchors.centerIn: parent
>>      text: "Test font"
>>      font.family: "MyCoolFont"
>> }
>>
>> seemingly does nothing.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is this just not implemented yet?
> Yes it should work, as long as that’s an OS installed font.  If it isn’t installed, then you might want to use a FontLoader:
>
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-qtquick-fontloader.html
>
> But if it works in C++ but not in QML, there might be a bug, so tell us more about what system you are using, and how and where the font is installed.
>
> You can also try qtdeclarative/examples/quick/text/fonts/availableFonts.qml to see samples of all installed fonts, and see if the one you want is in the list.

On 10/11/2014 09:02, Rutledge Shawn wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2014, at 08:30, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been playing with the font support in Qt.
>> In C++ I'm able to define and select a custom application font with
>> font.setFamily("MyCoolFont"),
>> but on the QML side something like
>>
>> Text {
>>      anchors.centerIn: parent
>>      text: "Test font"
>>      font.family: "MyCoolFont"
>> }
>>
>> seemingly does nothing.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is this just not implemented yet?
> Yes it should work, as long as that’s an OS installed font.  If it 
> isn’t installed, then you might want to use a FontLoader:
>
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-qtquick-fontloader.html
>
> But if it works in C++ but not in QML, there might be a bug, so tell 
> us more about what system you are using, and how and where the font is 
> installed.
>
> You can also try 
> qtdeclarative/examples/quick/text/fonts/availableFonts.qml to see 
> samples of all installed fonts, and see if the one you want is in the 
> list.
Well, in C++ I used QFontDatabase::addApplicationFontFromData(), in the 
hope that it would be available for use.
But I suppose Qt.fontFamilies() does not merge with 
QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies()...

I presume FontLoader uses QFontDatabase::addApplicationFontFromData() 
under the covers, but apparently something more needs to be done to make 
QML see it.

Anyway, thanks for the pointers, at least I know it should be doable.

Harri