Can you get a list of OSX fonts somehow?

[TIG]

Why are you using "C*" in the unpack and pack - doesn't that extract a character as an unsigned integer.
Shouldn't it be "U*" - which extracts UTF-8 characters as unsigned integers ?

[thomthom]

Because I actually want to see each byte. Not the Unicode ID.

[thomthom]

@driven said:

the puts should read [0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250] "2撖죺"

?
Where are these numbers from?

Why are you expecting a NULL byte? (That's usually a string termination in C.)

[driven]

I think this may be the root of my issues
if you unpack(C), then pack(U) sh*t happens

> a = "2撖죺".unpack('C*') b = a.pack('U*') c = puts a.inspect puts b.inspect [50, 230, 146, 150, 236, 163, 186] "2撖죺" nil
and visa-versa
> a = "2撖죺".unpack('U*') b = a.pack('C*') c = puts a.inspect puts b.inspect [50, 25750, 51450] "2\226\372" nil
I think the first is happening somewhere

[driven]

SU Top again
WD bottom
look familiar

[driven]

@thomthom said:

Where are these numbers from?

Pack and unpack bytes to strings

I need to write a function that "packs" an array of bytes (integers between 0 and 255) into a string. I also need to be able to perform the reverse operation, to get my byte array from the string t...

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[thomthom]

@driven said:

@thomthom said:

Where are these numbers from?

Pack and unpack bytes to strings

I need to write a function that "packs" an array of bytes (integers between 0 and 255) into a string. I also need to be able to perform the reverse operation, to get my byte array from the string t...

Code Review Stack Exchange (codereview.stackexchange.com)

That's from a questions that doesn't really make sense.

Also:

@unknownuser said:

Seeing as JavaScript has 16-bit strings, I packed two bytes per character.

Two byte per character isn't UTF-8.

[driven]

I was looking for test code and only grabbed the example, I got there from the Stackoverflow 'fix' that referred back.

Do these work as 3D Text on the PC...

I ran the full gamete of unpack().pack() scenario's in console and a mismatch is the only way to get the same results as the straight input.
john

[Dan Rathbun]

@thomthom said:

fonts.sort! %(#008000)[# (!) Not UTF-8 compatible! But better than nothing.]

(1) Since this will run only on Mac, which is Unicode aware, can't you pass the list to a command shell and use the shell's built-in sort filter ??

For instance on WIN, in DOS command shell, you can filter output by piping it through the sort filter, thus:
doc_list = %x(dir "~/documents/myproject" | sort)
or similar.

You'd need to build a plain text list from the array, each element being a line, separated by " \n"

(2) Alternative ... build an array copy using pack, sort it, then & unpack back to strings.

I think I'm late posting this... you guys are posting machines!

[thomthom]

If there is such a command then I'd guess that would work. But I'm not familiar with OSX terminal. Maybe John knows?

I can also use JS to sort it - since I'm displaying the list in a WebDialog.

[Dan Rathbun]

@thomthom said:

But I'm not familiar with OSX terminal.

Shell Scripting Primer: Command Line Primer

tcsh(1) OS X Manual Page[*]

Filename substitution

If a word contains any of the characters *`', ?', `` [' or {`' or begins with the character ~`' it is a candidate for filename substitution, also known as globbing''. This word is then regarded as a pattern (glob-pattern''), and replaced with an alphabetically sorted list of file names which match the pattern.

• Also do a Find on " ls-F", it is a built-in and supposed to be faster than " ls -F"

OS X Manual Page: ls command Reference

[driven]

This is probably my last effort on this.... circles,
but, I finally figured out find in Ruby Console, escapes, escapes, escapes...

THE THIRD WAY... no Font Book... no fc-list... just plain old find >> mdls... not the fastest, but not too bad.
inculed is Dan's tester, these all created 3D text from console, only Font Book and usr/local/bin/fc-list do that out of the can.

a=(`find /System/Library/Fonts\ /Library/Fonts\ ~/Library/Fonts\ \\( -name "*.ttf" -o -name "*.otf" \\) -type f`).split("\n").map! { |f| f.gsub(" ", "\\ ")} #need this or something to catch spaces in filenames
b=(a.collect{|x| `mdls  -name com_apple_ats_name_family -raw #{x}`}).map! { |f| f.split(",")[0]} #the other items in each array are unicode strings for other languages, if you want those use Font Book
c=b.map { |f| f[/[("\s]+([^"\n]+)[)"\s]+/m,1] }.uniq!.sort![2..-1] #[0] is empty, [1] is a dot file, could remove them
macFonts = c
chunksize = 1
chunk = 1
limit = macFonts.length
model = Sketchup.active_model
 
fsize = 1.0
linespacing = 1.2
 
bold = false
italic = false
thick = 0.05
filled = true
quality = 0.0
 
i = 0
 
while i < limit
 
  begin
    #
    model.start_operation("3D Fontnames (#{chunk})")
      #
      chunksize.times do |n|
        #
        break if i == limit
        #
        item = macFonts[i]
        grp = model.entities.add_group()
        grp.entities.add_3d_text( "#{item}", TextAlignCenter, "#{item}",
          bold, italic, fsize, quality, 0.0, filled, thick )
        grp.name= item
        grp.move!( Geom;;Transformation.new(Geom;;Vector3d.new(0,-(i*linespacing),0)) )
        #
        i += 1
        #
      end # chunk
      #
    model.commit_operation()
    #
  rescue Exception => e
    puts("\n*** macFonts group Error! ***")
    puts("  i = #{i}")
    puts("  chunk = #{chunk}")
    puts("  font = #{macFonts[i]}\n")
    model.abort_operation()
    puts("Error #<#{e.class.name}; #{e.message}>")
    puts(e.backtrace) if $VERBOSE
    raise
  end
 
  chunk += 1
 
end # while