Using Custom Fonts - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
Several example programs included with the SDK demonstrate, and the How Do I Use Custom Fonts FAQ covers it fully as well. As jim_m_58 mentioned, the Programmer's Guide was recently rewritten so things have moved around a bit.
Custom fonts - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
Custom fonts. Alan.raceQs over 5 years ago. I'm just starting to delve into custom fonts for my watch app and just want to confirm some points. No support for TTF fonts. Need to wrestle with BMFont on a character-by- character level. BMFont only supported on Windows. Reply.
resizing custom fonts - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
Just use different sized fonts for different sized displays. Here's the basic layout for a WF that supports all the watches, and not a line of the view code needs to change - Jungles is not needed. I have the large font for 208x208 with a height of 85, while for 390x390 at a …
Custom fonts - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
WatchFace_test2View.mc. // Load your resources here. function onLayout(dc) {. var customFont = Ui.loadResource(Rez.Fonts.customFont); } But on version 2.4.1 it does not work anymore, such an error: BUILD: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151\bin\java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapple.awt.UIElement=true -jar D:\eclipse\connectiq-sdk-win-2.4.1\bin ...
Other language support with custom fonts - Garmin Forums
What I do is to include the following sets if available: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic According to "Appendix B: Font Specifications" in the User Experience Guide, most fonts include Roman (Latin), Greek, Cyrillic and expanded and/or standard diacritics. I am also not 100% sure what to include, but have found that most Scandinavian languages do OK ...
Maximum font size on a watch face - Discussion - Garmin Forums
With Custom Fonts, the bigger they are, the more space they use in your watchface, so if you're using it for time, you probably want to cut back the available characters to something like 0 to 9 and : (if you click on my sig, "Simple Big" does this - a large custom font that's the same for all the supported devices).
Custom font icon - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
2. Create a new font. 3. Add all your characters (import SVG files for your icons). This is the part where you will associate icons with characters -- you will probably want to pick printable characters that will be easy to type/see in your Monkey C source code. 4. Use Generate Fonts... which exports as TTF. 5.
Font Sizes - Discussion - Connect IQ - Garmin Forums
Wow - creating custom fonts is amazingly easy. THANK YOU for the tips. The default fonts 0 - 4 have the following heights, at least for Edge 5xx, 8xx, and 1000 devices: 12,17,19, 22, and 36. The font height change from one to the next is very inconsistent: 41%, 11%, 15% 64% I needed a size between 3 and 4.
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Aug 29, 2024 · AlphaMonkeyC. Connect IQ was first announced nine years ago at the ANT+ Symposium. Since that time, we have expanded our support from the original four devices (Vivoactive, Forerunner® 920XT, fēnix® 3 and Epix) to over 100 products. The Connect IQ team is proud to announce the first beta of System 7.
Custom font spacing issue - Discussion - Garmin Forums
I'm trying to use a custom font in a watchface, it seems to load properly but then renders incorrectly: As you can see, the "1" characters are pushed together which suggests that it is not using the xadvance in the fnt information. My fnt file looks like this: info face="Segment" size=48 bold=0 italic=0 charset="" unicode=1 stretchH=100 smooth ...