Placing a font list into a menu
This lesson demonstrates how to display a list of the installed fonts in a menu.
The createFontMenu command
This custom command is used with the following statement:
createFontMenu
It assumes that there is already a button called "Font". Usually this button will be part of a group of buttons that makes up a menu bar. Remember that in LiveCode, menus are implemented as buttons, and a menu bar is a group of menu buttons. The list of fonts is placed in the button, and each line of the button contents becomes a separate menu item when the menu is displayed.
The fontNames function
The handler first uses the fontNames function to obtain a list of installed fonts. Since the list may not be returned in alphabetical order, the handler next sorts the list. Finally, it puts the list into the button's contents.
You would probably use the createFontMenu custom command in your application's startup handler, as part of setting up and initializing the application.
The createFontMenu command code
on createFontMenu
get the fontNames ## list of installed fonts
sort lines of it
put it into button "Font"
end createFontMenu
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