[Request] Simple Font Replacement

Aortick · July 2014

Could one of you Add-on Creators create a Simple Font Replacement Add-on with the "Trajan Pro" font? I am currenty using Pawksickles but, 1- It's Out of Date (no big deal suppose) and 2- There are just way too many Options (again, no big deal). However I would just like to use "Trajan Pro" as the default font.

So is there a simple way of doing this? Or is "Pawksickles" as simple as it gets? I would try this myself, but my coding skills are that of a Wolf trying to build a Space Station.

Garkin · July 2014

It is possible to write simple function which will replace all fonts with Trajan Pro, but it will probably make your UI unreadable. I recommend to stick with Pawksickles, because you can define which fonts should be replaced.

If you want to try it:

for key,value  in zo_insecurePairs(_G) do
   if (key):find("^Zo") and type(value) == "userdata" and value.SetFont then
      local font = {value:GetFontInfo()}
      font[1] = "EsoUI/Common/Fonts/TrajanPro-Regular.otf"
      value:SetFont(table.concat(font, "|"))
   end
end

Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/bZLPq

Aortick · July 2014

Thanks for the Reply. However I'm not sure what to do with that code. Do I copy&paste it somewhere? I did try to make a .lua out of it lol, but an error keep popping up about Line 6 "end" (I believe).

Btw thanks for the help and also for sharing your Add-ons. They are most Useful.

zgrssd · July 2014

Garkin wrote: »
It is possible to write simple function which will replace all fonts with Trajan Pro, but it will probably make your UI unreadable. I recommend to stick with Pawksickles, because you can define which fonts should be replaced.

If you want to try it:
for key,value  in zo_insecurePairs(_G) do
   if (key):find("^Zo") and type(value) == "userdata" and value.SetFont then
      local font = {value:GetFontInfo()}
      font[1] = "EsoUI/Common/Fonts/TrajanPro-Regular.otf"
      value:SetFont(table.concat(font, "|")
   end
end
Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/bZLPq

It goes over the global table.
It finds all entries that start with "Zo", are of type "userdata" and contain a SetFont function (index is not nil).
For each of those it does:
Extract the current FontInfo (propably includes stuff like Size, Boldness and other formatting too; common pattern for UI Font settings).
Replaces only the font to use.
Applies the modified value.

So it just bulk overwrites the font to use, without preserving the original setting in any way.

zgrssd · July 2014

Finding some values in the Global table named after a pattern (Basically this is a Font type enumeration) is exactly why I created LibConstantMapper in the first place.
I already made some tests. A total of 65 "Zo..." Variables are in the global table.
63 of those are ZoFont..., the other two are "ZoInteractionPromt" and "ZoLargeFontEdit", of wich I am not certain if they are related to this case. But garkins check for the existing function should take care of that.

I have to push the 0.6 version live before you can use it for this, but the tests look good so far.

Aortick · July 2014

zgrssd wrote: »

Finding some values in the Global table named after a pattern (Basically this is a Font type enumeration) is exactly why I created LibConstantMapper in the first place.
I already made some tests. A total of 65 "Zo..." Variables are in the global table.
63 of those are ZoFont..., the other two are "ZoInteractionPromt" and "ZoLargeFontEdit", of wich I am not certain if they are related to this case. But garkins check for the existing function should take care of that.

I have to push the 0.6 version live before you can use it for this, but the tests look good so far.

All over my head my friend, I'm not even sure what do with the Code Garkin gave

Garkin · July 2014

Aortick wrote: »

Thanks for the Reply. However I'm not sure what to do with that code. Do I copy&paste it somewhere? I did try to make a .lua out of it lol, but an error keep popping up about Line 6 "end" (I believe).

Btw thanks for the help and also for sharing your Add-ons. They are most Useful.

If you want to try what code does you can either copy&paste it to the end of any .lua file in your addons folder or use @Seerah's addon ZAM Notebook which can run code snippets.

Aortick · July 2014

I have tried that with every .lua file I have, this is what happens. http://i.imgur.com/Yz8MuUu.jpg

Garkin · July 2014

Aortick wrote: »

I have tried that with every .lua file I have, this is what happens. http://i.imgur.com/Yz8MuUu.jpg

Missing bracket on this line:

value:SetFont(table.concat(font, "|"))

I have updated original post to fix the issue.

Aortick · July 2014

Dude you are Awesome!! This is exactly what I was wanting. So I made into its own Add-On, changed the font, and had to lower the UI Scale (well, I had already done that). This is the result, much better than the original font imo.
http://imgur.com/a/ft772#0

Garkin · August 2014

Just for people who wants to replace ingame fonts - I have uploaded updated version of @Pawkette's Pawksickles to ESOUI:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info723-PawksicklesUpdated.html