[PD-dev] adding fontpath

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

B. Bogart wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> This sounds really interesting, where can I get more info on what
> Johannes's has done?

well, don't expect too much.
the main thing jamie talks about is, that Gem searches for fonts (and
other things like shaders, images,...) within pd's search path.
this allows you to just use "font courier.ttf" without having to
remember the full path at paching time, by simply adding some
system-specific search path to pd (like %WINDOWS%\Fonts\ or whereever
they are)

this is clearly a good thing.
however, it doesn't really help you if you want to have a list of "all
fonts installed on the system" (e.g. in a popup) so that the user can
select one of them.

so i think another good thing to have would a [file/find] object that
searches for a given filename-pattern in pd's search path.

a combination of these 2 things would (imho) be perfect, as it would
allow us to create a list of all (conveniently) available fonts (or
whatever) and allow us to access them via the objects.


mfg.asdr.
IOhannes