Java Question Fonts & Typeface.createFromAsset

[tchart]

All, another question about wrapping libraries with resources. This one has to do with fonts.

The library Im trying to wrap has the following code in it;

Typeface t = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(), String.format("fonts/%s.ttf", name));

I get an error stating that it cant find the font file. The problem from what I can see is that the library Java code is expecting the font to be in the "fonts" sub-folder. I've tried altering the code to look in the root resources folder but that didnt work either.

In the end I altered the code to be this, which works;

Typeface t = Typeface.createFromAsset(BA.applicationContext.getAssets(), String.format("%s.ttf", name).toLowerCase(BA.cul));

This relies on B4A to create the font which is fine but I would like to remove the need for me to alter any code from the original library source code.

Is there a trick I need to know about loading the font correctly?

 

[Erel]

Have you copied the font file to a folder named fonts under the project Files folder?

 

[tchart]

Thanks Erel, yes I tried that too. I think maybe the context under which it tries to load the fonts must be different or something.

 

[DonManfred]

it should work if the font file in assets (or in assets/fonts/) is lowercased.

 

[tchart]

Thanks Manfred, I will give that a try.

 

[tchart]

Manfred, you are a legend.

Added fonts to ..\files\fonts folder and altered code to lowercase the font name.

Typeface t = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(), String.format("fonts/%s.ttf", name).toLowerCase());

 

[DonManfred]

What i meant to say was that you should copy only lowercased filenames into the assets (and it´s subfolders) instead of
doing a

.toLowerCase()

as it is not needed to change the code if folder and filenames are lowercase. Your goal was to suppress the needs to change the original code or not?

 

[tchart]

DonManfred b4a lower cases the font file names. The problem is actually that library developer has hard coded the font names in mixed case. So I have to lower case them in his helper function. I've asked him if he can lower case the font names but he said no.

 

[DonManfred]

I understand