Question

In application i have to use custom font. First i create class that extends VerticalFieldManager class. In this class i want to use custom font. I have TTF file (name is AGENCYB.TTF). I kept this file in res/img folder. To load this file i use following code:

if (FontManager.getInstance().load("AGENCYB.TTF", "MyFont",
        FontManager.APPLICATION_FONT) == FontManager.SUCCESS)
{
   System.out.println("**************************IF SUCCESS*******");
   try
   {
      FontFamily typeface = FontFamily.forName("MyFont");
      myFont = typeface.getFont(Font.BOLD, 50);
      label2.setFont(myFont);
   }
   catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
   {
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
   }
}

But it is not changing font of label field. I implemented code by using this link:
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/18095/BlackBerry_Java_SDK-Development_Guide–1239696-0730090812-001-6.0-US.pdf

Any idea would be great help.

Thanks

**********EDIT**************

if (FontManager.getInstance().load("AGENCYB.TTF", "AGENCYB", FontManager.APPLICATION_FONT) == FontManager.SUCCESS)

Answer 1

First of all, this is the BlackBerry tutorial I’ve used for loading custom fonts

Second of all, I don’t see a return code of 8 in any of the values that the API docs says FontManager.load() returns. SUCCESS is a value of 0, so you’re not successfully calling load().

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/7.0.0api/net/rim/device/api/ui/FontManager.html

Returns:
FontManager.SUCCESS if font loads successfully.
FontManager.FONTS_ARRAY_FULL if too many fonts loaded.
FontManager.MISSING_TYPEFACE_NAME if typeface name is invalid.
FontManager.DUPLICATE_NAME if font name is duplicate.
FontManager.DUPLICATE_DATA if font data is duplicate.
FontManager.NO_FONT_DATA if no font data is found.
FontManager.EXCEEDS_LIMIT if font data exceeds 60k in size.
FontManager.MISS_RESOURCE if font file cannot be found.
FontManager.FAILED_TO_LOAD_FILE if font data is invalid or font format is invalid.

When I ran in the debugger on OS 5.0 and 7.1, I saw that -8 was equal to FontManager.DUPLICATE_NAME, but didn’t see any code equal to 8.

Also, did you generate this font file yourself (AGENCYB.TTF)? Because your code is asking for a font named MyFont in the AGENCYB.TTF file. I wouldn’t expect a font to actually be named MyFont unless it was somebody writing a Hello World program (and homemade .ttf file).

If this is a custom font, provided by a 3rd-party font library, or bought from someone else, I would expect the font names to be something other than MyFont, which is what they have in the BlackBerry sample that you probably copied your code from.

So, double-check that, and let us know if it’s still not working.

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Update: since it looks like you also fail when you use the string "AGENCYB" in your code, I think the problem is that you’re using the wrong font name. Even though the file is AGENCYB.TTF, I bet the font name inside that file is not AGENCYB. Is this the same file that you find in Windows under C:\Windows\fonts? If so, you can use Windows (7, at least) to look at the font file.

Just double-click the .ttf file in Windows Explorer, and it should give you a preview, that shows the proper font name. That name is the name you use in the two java calls, where the sample code has "MyFont". In this case, you see that the font name is probably "Agency FB". Try that.

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Update 2: I also tried loading the Agency FB font from the AGENCYR.TTF file that can be found in C:\windows\Fonts\AGENCYR.TTF on a Windows 7 machine. This exact code worked for me on a 5.0 8900 simulator:

  int result = FontManager.getInstance().load("AGENCYR.TTF", "Agency FB", FontManager.APPLICATION_FONT);

  if (result == FontManager.SUCCESS)
  {
     try 
     {
        FontFamily typeface = FontFamily.forName("Agency FB");
        Font myFont = typeface.getFont(Font.PLAIN, 50);
        helloWorld.setFont(myFont); 
     }
     catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) 
     {
     }
  }