Cascades Development

[blackqtcoder]

Hi guys !

I have to get a list of fonts installed in the Alpha Device, needed for a text setting pickup dialog.

The cascades documentation says nothing about this. How can i get it?

Thanks.

[smacmartin]

This doesn't directly answer your question, but see:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Native-Development/BB10-Dev-Alpha-quot-QFontDatabase-Cannot-f...

Stuart

[blackqtcoder]

Thanks smacmartin for your reply, but how you know, I was thinking on cascades's native fonts, not Qt fonts.

However, while cascades fonts are "accesible" to us at next releases ( i hope, i hope), Qt fonts maybe are valid for my purpose.

Best regards.

[blackqtcoder]

Another question, smacmartin. Can I use Qt fonts with Cascades, without QFont class ? Thanks

[smacmartin · Accepted solution]

It is not documented in https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/reference/qt_index.html so the official answer is it does not work in R4.

Try it and let me know.  (It's on my queue but I can't get to it today).  It might be that you can collect info with QFont and from that initialize the appropriate font, but I'd have to play to be sure this works.

Stuart

[blackqtcoder]

Ok. I will try it.

Thanks again.

[blackqtcoder]

That doesn't work. QFont is no supported in Cascades. I tested.

The other alternative is using fontFamily property and create a "hand-made" list of font families, but fontFamily has no effect too !! :

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Label {

     text: "Hello world"

     textStyle {

             fontFamily: "Times New Roman"

     }

}

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It doesn't work. All other properties work (size, fontStyle, fontWeight, etc.), except fontFamily.

A bug ? A known issue ? (i don't see in release notes)

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

[babcow]

    QFontDatabase database;
    QStringList fontList = database.families();

    foreach (const QString &family, database.families())
    {
        qDebug() << family;
    }