Cascades Development

[bskania]

Hello,

I want to use different font on each text in my app,

I want to use Helvetica font.

I found that in each text style only sans serif and serif fonts are supported.

So how can I apply helvetica font in my application.

Thanks in advance

bskania.

[mgoulet]

Have you looked at the QML properties pane in Momentics?

Once you create a TextField in your QML document and place your cursor in it, the QML Properties pane will change accordingly. Here is an example of a customized TextField:

        TextField {
            textStyle.fontStyle: FontStyle.Italic
            textStyle.fontWeight: FontWeight.Normal
            text: "TESTING"
            textStyle.fontStyleHint: FontStyleHint.Serif
            textStyle.fontFamily: "Helvetica"
        }

Cheers,

Martin

[bskania]

yes I had looked at the QML properties pane in Momentics.

In that 3 fonts are there.

"default"

"Sans serif"

and "serif"

bskania

[mgoulet]

These three options reflect the FontStyleHint; The actual font is selected using the "textStyle.fontFamily" property.

Have you tried setting this to a specific font e.g.: textStyle.fontFamily: "Helvetica"

Are you able to see changes to the font with this line?

[bcs925]

I am having the same issue as the original poster... no matter what I change the textStyle.fontFamily: "" or the textStyle{ fontFamily: ""} to it doesn't change the font.  Also on that note changing from "serif" to "sansserif" that doesn't change as it should either.

[mgoulet]

At this point, I would encourage to post an issue in the Issue Tracking system as fonts should be working with these properties.

Issue tracker:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Please post the Issue's link here afterwards, I will change visibility to public so others can vote on it.

Thanks!

Maritn

[bcs925]

I will make one, but is this really necessary... As in if this isn't a popular issue we just won't get fonts?

[bcs925]

JIRA ticket created: BBTEN-235

[mgoulet]

Great, thank you!

Martin

[battlegoat]

It would appear that there is still no ability to set FontFamily in Cascades in the current version?  The bug report is still open, and I can't find any information on a work-around.

It would be nice to have a monospaced font choice for the app we're doing, but currently this does not appear to be possible.  The inability to use other fonts in Cascades is a bit odd.