Icon fonts in iOS

[grimaldiface]

Hi all-- I'm interested in installing iconfonts (such as http://www.flaticon.com/) to use for mobile icons, instead of using images. This would make it much easier to scale and look really sharp. Especially when the icon is only something simple like a chevron.

I have downloaded and installed some icon fonts, but they just print out as letters in livecode. Has anyone had success using icon fonts in LC? I believe MOBgui uses it, so I'm sure it's possible.

Thanks!

[Simon]

Hi grimaldiface,
You have to include the font in the standalone "Copy Files".

Simon

[grimaldiface]

Hi grimaldiface,
You have to include the font in the standalone "Copy Files".

Simon

Sorry, I should clarify. I am able to get the custom fonts onto the mobile app through copy files. I do this with other fonts all the time, but for whatever reason icon fonts don't seem to work.

[Simon]

Looking at http://www.flaticon.com/ they aren't fonts at all (unless you converted them).
So, kind'a confused as to what you are looking for. To answer your first question;

Has anyone had success using icon fonts in LC?

Yes.
Is wingdings everywhere? You can test with them.


Simon

[grimaldiface]

Hmmm, wingdings seem to work.

I found a flaticon.ttf file somewhere. It installed on my computer just fine. Maybe a better question is if someone knows of good mobile icon fonts that work well with LC

[Simon]

You should be able to take the svg images from http://www.flaticon.com/ and use this http://fontello.com/ to create your own font.

Simon
Edit; Oh yes, they are actually called glyph fonts

[grimaldiface]

Awesome! thanks, Simon! I'll give that a shot....

[grimaldiface]

Got it working. They didn't work originally because the glyphs were mapped to weird unicode codes, to "a,b,c,d, etc." Fontello lets you create your own code mapping so it's much easier to type the glyphs. Thanks!