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Support => NGUI 3 Support => Topic started by: niall on August 15, 2014, 02:52:51 PM

Title: Can NGUI use system fonts?
Post by: niall on August 15, 2014, 02:52:51 PM

For reasons that would require a lot of explaining, I need to use the built-in iOS and Android system fonts for an app,  Without having those fonts as part of the app itself.  I managed to find this, which works quite well aside from the 4 year old NGUI portion no longer compiling against current NGUI...
https://github.com/imkira/unity-sysfont/tree/unity4x

So we can attach a SysFont component to a gameObject at runtime on the device, and properly use any iOS fonts that exist.  Looks really crisp too!  The problem is that we need to do per-word highlighting within a string, which this does not support. 

I've been unable to find anything concrete about NGUI's support for these system fonts, so I suspect it is not possible, but figured I'd at least ask if it might be supported in the future?  Seems like quite a neat feature for a wide range of uses, no?

Title: Re: Can NGUI use system fonts?
Post by: ArenMook on August 16, 2014, 09:31:44 AM

NGUI didn't exist 4 years ago. ;)

I had a look at it, cleaned up and made it compile on the latest version of NGUI. Can't test it though. I'm on Windows and the plugin doesn't support Windows.