Greetings,

I am using PFont.list() to generate an array of fonts:

String[] fontList = PFont.list();
println(fontList);


But this list() function pulls all fonts installed on my system.

Is there a way to specify a folder path so I can control which fonts get pulled into the array? I can use selectFolder() to have the user choose a font folder, but I don't know how to target PFont.list() to that path.

Thanks!

Thanks. Perhaps you can point me to an example, or help with a little more detail? I've pulled my code from http://processing.org/learning/topics/directorylist.html. But I'm still not establishing a clean font listing.

Can I limit the return string of filenames to ttf or functioning fonts as Plist does? And how to set up the array of fonts to recursively pass through all sub-folders in the directory?


I've got this in my setup():

 // Open file chooser to select font folder
 String folderPath = selectFolder();  
 if (folderPath == null) {
   // If a folder was not selected
   println("No folder was selected...");
 }
 else {
   // If a folder was selected, print path to folder
   println(folderPath);
 }

 // determine Path
 String path = folderPath;
 println("Listing all filenames in a directory: ");
 String[] filenames = listFileNames(path);
 println(filenames);

 // fontList =  PFont.list();
 fontList =  filenames;    //FONT SELECTION CODE

 println(fontList);



And this function below:

// This function returns all the files in a directory as an array of Strings  
String[] listFileNames(String dir) {
 File file = new File(dir);
 if (file.isDirectory()) {
   String names[] = file.list();
   return names;
 }
 else {
   // If it's not a directory
   return null;
 }
}

Thanks PhiLho, an example would be great.

I'm trying to:
- select a folder (using selectFolder, which is working)
- filter back a string array from within the selected folder and its subfolders to font files as recognized by PFont.list (MAC OSX fonts including otf, ttf and all font suitcases)

Thanks!

Thanks PhiLho! How can that dig recursively into subfolders?

Do you know how PFont.list identifies usable fonts? Because not all font files have extensions (.ttf, .otf etc.), so I'm not sure exactly which parameters need to be set up for the filter.

Thanks JohnG.

I wanted to dynamically createFont from a user-specified folder...

But it seems easier to pre-create chosen vlw fonts into the data folder and then dynamically loadFont from there.