I have tried this on a few installations of the 3.1.3 SDK.
When I add a label to my view, I would like to change the font to something like Futura. I know how to change the font, but, for some reason, it does not show that it is changed. ONLY when I edit the label by double clicking, do I see my new font. And, this is the only time that I do get to see the new font, is when editing the label.
Why does this happen? How can I change the font of my labels, and have it show up? Why would I care to have the font changed when I edit the label?!
There are only a few system fonts installed on the iPhone. So when you try to use a non standard font, ala Future, it will not work, because that is no installed on the iPhone.
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I have my custom fonts working fine when they are running on the simulator, but is there any way to view custom fonts in the storyboard itself while I'm working? My text doesn't match the size of the default font so I have to keep compiling and running the code and eyeing the correct size by trial and error over and over.
I've seen a few questions hit on this, but it's just bringing up how to upload custom fonts.
You can't do it in Xcode 4, as it limits you to the preloaded fonts. Xcode 3 had the opposite problem (with .xib files anyway) of allowing you to use any font on your Mac, even if it would not be available to your app at runtime.
Hopefully a future version of Xcode will hit the useful middle ground of giving you exactly what it can determine will be available at runtime. This is actually difficult for Apple to do because the storyboards/nibs live in a project (which may have multiple targets) and the fonts exist in the targets. IMO they should let you use any font and add a build-time warning if a storyboard/nib is built into a target that does not have all the required fonts in it.
What may work is to edit the storyboard as text (available by right-clicking) and rewrite the font names in there to your custom font names. If it follows the pattern of other Apple products you will then see the custom fonts but it will "correct" them back to "legal" fonts if you access that element in the inspector. I haven't tried this.
My pragmatic technique is to find a system font which has roughly the same characteristics in terms of character dimensions and leading, and use that in the storyboard for layout purposes.
I'm making an app which uses a custom font (Rockwell.ttf). I have done everything correctly and it works when I am using for UILabels (text only), however, when I try to use it with a UILabel that contains numbers, the font does not work with the numbers.
In finder when I open up the .ttf it shows the text as well as the numbers but as soon as I import it into Xcode, the numbers dissapear and I'm left only with the text! Please help.
try with some other .ttf fonts and check if they show the numbers. This way you can will be able to identify if the problem is with the .ttf font or with the iOS :)
I have a UILabel that I've placed in IB. In the inspector I have changed the font to "Papyrus". When I launch the app in the simulator, the font is not Papyrus. How can I change the font?
You can add custom fonts but you need to add them into your .plist file under the key "Fonts provided by application" to a new row.
Fonts must be added to the Resources of the project and TTF and OpenType fonts are supported.
I believe this is only available in iOS 3.2 or later.
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Not all fonts listed in IB are available on the iPhone as standard. Papyrus is one of those not available on the iPhone.
More here:
http://ajnaware.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/list-of-fonts-available-on-the-iphone/
You can add custom fonts to the iPhone, but I'd think hard before doing that -- if you're putting a weird looking font onto normal UI items, ask yourself if it actually looks any good! I've seen some real eyesore apps where someone thought it would be cute to put some crime against typography on all the UI controls.
How can I change window title font style and font color?
The titlebar text is managed by your operating system's window manager, and the only thing you can do as an application programmer is change the text value.
That is, unless you want to draw your own (fake) title bar. That's generally frowned upon, though. If you really want to, you can take a look at the source code of apps that do this, for example Chromium.
Is there any way to change the letter-spacing of text in Eclipse's code editor?
Maybe you can try changing from a fixed width font to the variable width font like Verdana or Tahoma. Window->Preferences->Appearance->Colors and Fonts->Basic->Text Font
If you mean the java code editor in Eclipse this is not possible. The editor is not a word processor. You can only change the font setings (typeface, style, color, size).
If you are referring to this kind of letter spacing, then no, I do not think so.
Not in the sense that a typography system allows you to tweak the appearance of text on a printed page.
The default for me is Courier New Regular 10. You can change the size to 12 or some other size.
Are you trying to change the kerning rules? Kerning is positioning different letters in a variable-width font. For instance in the word "We", the "e" is tucked in a little bit under the "W". The page-layout software that magazine publishers use can control this.
Fonts are opaque to Eclipse; it doesn't give you a way to change the rules within the font. Unfortunately the best you can do is try the different fonts and sizes until you find one that has kerning rules that work, more or less.