Alphabeticised font menu

[richmond62]

This:

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on mouseDown
    put the fontNames into me
end mouseDown

gives me this:
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[that's only part of the list ]

HOWEVER, things would be much lovelier if the font list were alphabeticised . . .

[FourthWorld]

Let me introduce you to our friend sort:
https://livecode.com/resources/api/#liv ... _container

[richmond62]

I have been aware of sort for many years, but somehow, rather naively,
thought listing the fonts would automatically alphabeticise them.

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on mouseDown
   put the fontNames into me
   sort lines of me ascending international
end mouseDown

[FourthWorld]

I had once thought that about file listings too, but Dr. Raney explained that the engine delivers them in the order the OS hands them to it. I suspect the same is true with font files.

[Klaus]

I have been aware of sort for many years, but somehow, rather naively,
thought listing the fonts would automatically alphabeticise them.

And probably even still after looking at your own screenshot?

[richmond62]

Very funny:
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[richmond62]

And . . . .
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How does one stop "all that cack" [the top bit in the snapshot] from showing up in a font list on MacOS?

[bogs]

How does one stop "all that cack" [the top bit in the snapshot] from showing up in a font list on MacOS?

Well, you start with this code....

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on mouseDown
   put the fontNames into me
   sort lines of me ascending international
end mouseDown

...and if it were say, me, I'd modify it like this ....

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on mouseDown
   put the fontNames into me
   sort lines of me ascending international
   delete line 1 to 7 of me
end mouseDown

[richmond62]

And why should it always be lines 1 to 7 that are full of crud?

[bogs]

If you see something change in a font list on MacOS, let me know.

[FourthWorld]

Those aren't "crud" (how do you imagine the team has time to go out of their way to add "crud" to the engine?).

They are directives that can be used to radically simplify using fonts that adhere to OS conventions across supported platforms.

And because they're directives rather than true font names, those are likely to be filtered out of the fontNames by the engine in the near future.

For now you can use the filter command:

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filter tFontList without "(*)"

[richmond62]

Those aren't "crud" (how do you imagine the team has time to go out of their way to add "crud" to the engine?).

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filter tFontList without "(*)"

What is one man's meat is another one's poison . . . so crud can stand.

Thanks.