[release] Perfect Mac Fontselector

Hey guys,

I thought i'd share this little alpha app with you. Its very early in development, so not many features at the moment, but it demonstrates a bunch of custom controls Im going to release for all you other devs, save you some time (dont bug me about when, Im not sure yet )

Download the alpha here (666kb)

Feel free to ask for features, post more screenies of the actual app so I can get it more accurate etc. If you have a bug to report, please put BUG REPORT at the top of your post so I can see at a glance whats what.

Cheers, and please comment

~alilm

Topic Title Edited.

This is a [release].

Don't make up your own tags.

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Stevie BM

#170982

Good grief! :canadian:

#170984

Yay another font app.

#170985

Yay, very nice

#170986

i like the file size but do we really need another font viewer?

#170990

Originally posted by Sharpie30K@Jun 1 2004, 01:09 PM

i like the file size but do we really need another font viewer?

No.

#170991

Originally posted by Globox@Jun 1 2004, 08:13 PM

No.

Suddenly Im really glad I spent many hours coding this

:sigh:

#170995

Haha, nothing personal, just too many font apps. And font apps aren't very... important? At least not for me, the default Windows font viewer is fine (and I never use it). Merlin would be nice

#170998

Originally posted by Globox@Jun 1 2004, 08:18 PM

Haha, nothing personal, just too many font apps. And font apps aren't very... important? At least not for me, the default Windows font viewer is fine (and I never use it). Merlin would be nice

This app is more about the controls it represents, custom GUI etc that Im developing for developers who want to save time rather than make their own. The whole font thing is just a way to demonstrate them.

#171001

Originally posted by alilm@Jun 1 2004, 03:20 PM

This app is more about the controls it represents, custom GUI etc that Im developing for developers who want to save time rather than make their own. The whole font thing is just a way to demonstrate them.

so it's like aqua controls version 3.0 XP huh?

hopefully apple wont put your nuts in a vice grip as quickly as the last aqua controls...

#171005

Ok.

#171006

:woot: sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

thnx alilm

#171024

A font app that looks lovely and selects and delects fonts in folders other than windows/fonts somewhat like Adobe Type manger/suitcase would be nice.. not just a viewer.

#171045

If you want this app to look like font book for mac, you are waaay off. If this is something new then that is great! AndreasV got pretty damn close to how it (the mac one) looks so check his out if you need a reference.

EDIT

Oh I see...you are not emulating the same program...never mind.

#171046

Originally posted by alilm@Jun 1 2004, 08:15 PM

Suddenly Im really glad I spent many hours coding this

:sigh:

You should be glad - I'm excited about the possibilities that these new controls will give developers - this program that you're writing just marks the start of a new suite of apps.

Keep up the good work!

#171053

Looking good Al, definetely going in the good direction.

Bug-report:

- flickering as hell, try some double-buffering

- the buttons at the bottom are flickering for no good reason

- the colour picker dialog is not modal

- the colour picker dialog should be hidden only on mouse-up, not on mouse-down. Otherwise, I won't be able to browse thru the colours in that very funky .NET control.

- the App doesn't have a taskbar-button.

- I can enter text in the fontsize edit field.

Feature request:

- Skinning possibility

Keep the good work up! :rock:

#171061

i like the file size

#171285

@ Al... hey awesome... it's good for the actual graphic designer types... i'll tell you that much... though like i said with Ave's Fontbook... it'd be nice have a feature, to be able to set up which folders you can use to maximize the font loading in Photoshop or such apps?

#171286

I love it!

this is perfect for me cause i do lots of stuff in photoshop so i have lots of fonts!

now i can see them perfctly!

#171725

wow, it looks awesome, keep up the work..

#171928

Originally posted by babypapichulo@Jun 2 2004, 05:24 PM

this is perfect for me cause i do lots of stuff in photoshop so i have lots of fonts!

now i can see them perfctly!

Watch this. And you don't even have to leave Photoshop. Cool huh?

#171971

Nice app!!! :rock:

#185023

man this app is awesome..

this is one of the best font browsers ive come across yet(function wise)

it does lag a little and the flickering kinda bugs a little..

i hope you keep developing this

if not i just hope you get the flickering out..

this app will rock once its complete!!!!

would bee neat if the app can browse other folders with fonts in it other then just the windows font folder..

because for me i have 2 font folders one is the windows and the other is my unused fonts.. i use type manager to turn on and off the fonts.. and i have the fonts in different folders by font types.. just speeds things up when looking for certain type of font..

#191958