IfCondition to display a String when Rainmeter is unable to find Font?

[x_magnumse_x]

Hi

So I'm working on an options menu for my skin where you can type in the name of the font to change it.
But I want it to throw an error-message to the user if the user misspelled or if the font doesn't exist.

Is this possible? and if yes, how?

Thank you,

Magnumizer

[jsmorley]

No, it really is not.

Rainmeter does not consider a FontFace that it can't find in memory as an "error", and just quietly replaces it with the default, I think Arial or something.

There is really no way I can think of with Rainmeter alone. FontFace is not based on any file name, so there is really just no way to ask if the font family exists.

[x_magnumse_x]

Wouldn't it be possible to do something like:

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IfCondition= (#FontVariable# = Arial)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption ErrorMessage Text "Unable to find font"][!Redraw]

[jsmorley]

Wouldn't it be possible to do something like:

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IfCondition= (#FontVariable# = Arial)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption ErrorMessage Text "Unable to find font"][!Redraw]

No, Rainmeter does not keep track of, or expose to the skin, what font it is using.

I think getting a FontFace from the user via InputText is a bad idea. They are going to get it wrong about 60% of the time. Provide a list of either standard Windows fonts, or ones you include with the skin in @Resources\Fonts, and let them select from the list.

That's just my opinion of course, all I can really do is tell you what is possible, and what you want just isn't.

[x_magnumse_x]

Ok. I understand.

Thanks for your help as always!

Love you!