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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Thanks 'driven' - I knew there had to be a simpler way ! πŸ˜„

      TIG

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      • T Offline
        todd burch
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        I have a java program that runs on both Win and OSX if you want a copy.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          John - and there is no flashing console windows when you perform that?

          @unknownuser said:

          I have a java program that runs on both Win and OSX if you want a copy.

          I'm good with these solutions here - I prefer them over Flash and Java as then we don't have to rely on plugins to be installed. There's too many users with out of date versions which these days get blocked by browsers or they are locked down due to office policy.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @driven said:

            If you want a list in ruby

             fontList=(`osascript -e 'tell application "Font Book"' -e ' set fontList to name of every font family' -e 'end tell'`)
            

            Tried it on my Mac Mini - I started this Font Book application which appeared in the dock (not something I'd really want.)

            And it was also very slow. Took about 2-3 seconds.

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
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              Of course, running it a second time it's much faster. So it's the overhead of starting the Font Book app.

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
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                How about [MAC]:
                fontList=system(/usr/bin/fc-list : file family | grep /Library)
                ??

                TIG

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  Returned false πŸ˜•

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
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                    How about:
                    fontList=system("#!/bin/bash/usr/bin\n/fc-list : file family | grep /Library")

                    TIG

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                      thomthom
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                      false

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        In normal Console:
                        /usr/bin/fc-list : file family | grep \/Library
                        Return:
                        -bash: /usr/bin/fc-list: No such file or directory

                        cd /usr/bin/ fc-list : family
                        Return:
                        List of just font names.

                        fc-list : file family | grep \/Library
                        Returns:
                        Nothing

                        But getting the result of system call under SketchUp, with the system method - all I get is false.

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                          thomthom
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                          http://stackoverflow.com/a/3159997/486990

                          Either:
                          system('foobarCommand')

                          foobarCommand``

                          The latter will return the output - the former will output to standard output but return true/false.

                          ` >> system('echo hi')
                          hi
                          => true

                          echo hi
                          => "hi\n"`

                          fc-list : family`` returns a list of font names.

                          (This was using IRB from a system console)

                          However, using Ruby Console:
                          echo hi`` returns "hi\n"

                          but fc-list : family`` returns "" πŸ˜•

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                            thomthom
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                            System IRB console:

                            >> system 'echo hi' hi => true

                            SketchUp Console:

                            ` > system 'echo hi'
                            true

                            system 'fc-list'
                            false`

                            What gives?

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                              How about something like...
                              fontList = system(fc-list : family)
                              ??
                              Do you need to specify the 'shell-type' in the line like ?
                              fontList=system(#!/bin/bash usr/bin/fc-list : family)
                              When it works, then is it fast enough ?

                              TIG

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                                thomthom
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                                @tig said:

                                How about something like...
                                fontList = system(fc-list : family)
                                ??

                                See my previous post - the commands work in native consoles, but not in in SketchUp console - it doesn't appear to capture the output.

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
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                                  But the surely surrounding ` ``` '' "" etc can produce different results ??
                                  So... are they all foobar?

                                  My other example tried to force it to run as a 'bash' shell... Is that possible?

                                  Not having a MAC available does somewhat curtail my help in this area πŸ˜’

                                  TIG

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                                    Jim
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                                    @thomthom said:

                                    the commands work in native consoles, but not in in SketchUp console

                                    Maybe they are using stderr instead of stdout? You could test on the command line:

                                    fc-list : family > out fc-list : family 2> err

                                    Hi

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                                      thomthom
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                                      @tig said:

                                      But the surely surrounding ` ``` '' "" etc can produce different results ??
                                      So... are they all foobar?

                                      My other example tried to force it to run as a 'bash' shell... Is that possible?

                                      They all return false.

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                                        thomthom
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                                        @jim said:

                                        Maybe they are using stderr instead of stdout? You could test on the command line:

                                        fc-list : family > out fc-list : family 2> err

                                        nada 😞

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                          thomthom
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                                          Tried to output to file:

                                          fc-list : family >> ~/Desktop/fonts.txt

                                          Empty when run from within SketchUp, populated when run in a native console.

                                          Something is messed up with the messaging system! 😞

                                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
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                                            system(fc-list : family | out) ?
                                            running out of permutations...

                                            TIG

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