B4J Question Lao Unicode Font Display

[boontong]

Hello I am just new in B4X, about starting with B4J, I feel I love it and will use for my further carrier development for different platform. I have problem display my language on label or text box. My country font is not listed in the property sheet, is there any way to add font (1. question). Anyway when I write on property sheet it looks ok (but not exactly the font shape), but the text on the wysiwyg designer or output screen it shows just blocks. Is there anyway to fix? Thanks.

 

[Erel]

You can add fonts at runtime.
Add the font file to the Files tab and:

Dim fx As JFX
Dim fnt As B4XFont = xui.CreateFont(fx.LoadFont(File.DirAssets, "font.file", 14), 14)
lbl.Font = fnt

It is currently not possible to add it to the designer, but the text will appear correctly once you set the font at runtime.

 

[boontong]

Thank you Erel. It works nice for label.
But how do we do for textfield (for instance) that seams do not have font member at runtime?

 

[klaus]

I suppose that you declared the Textfiel as a Textfield.
Declare is as a B4XView then you have the Font property.

 

[boontong]

Thank you Klaus. I have tried to declare TextFiel as B4XView, yes now I have Font property, but with setting TextFiel.Font to my font at runtime, TextFiel still does not show character correctly. Any further solutions? My appreciation.

 

[Erel]

Thank you Klaus. I have tried to declare TextFiel as B4XView, yes now I have Font property, but with setting TextFiel.Font to my font at runtime, TextFiel still does not show character correctly. Any further solutions? My appreciation.

It is best if you upload a small project with the font file and the TextField.

 

[boontong]

I have uploaded my small project with Lao font, you can see that textfied does not show correctly, label and button are ok. Thanks.

 

[Erel]

I see it too and I'm not sure why it happens.

It does work with a different custom font:

Dim fnt As B4XFont = xui.CreateFont(fx.LoadFont(File.DirAssets, "neutronium.ttf", 25), 25)
TextField1.Font = fnt

Try to look for a different Lao font file.

 

[boontong]

Erel, I have tried different Lao fonts as you advised, finally I have found one that works. Actually this one is OTF font, the remaining Lao TTF fonts do not work.
Thanks Erel and Klaus.