Invisible Textfield since last iOs update (8.2) (system font aren't found) ! :o [openfl 3, lime 2.3]

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Hello,

I have a big problem with text right now.
Since last iOs update (8.2 12D508) my texts don’t show anymore.

Things as simple as :

var text : Textfield = new Textfield();
text.defaultTextFormat = new Textformat("Arial", 20, 0x0066ff);
text.text = "blablabla";

don’t show anything :open_mouth:

A lot of my in production games are affected, no text visible at all :frowning:

I’ll try to update to last Lime, but I’m not sure I should update openfl to last beta yet. as I use a lot of extensions and it seems this part isn’t ready yet ? (no Lib.load / jni)

What can I do to show text again ? I don’t even have an error message when creating a textformat :’(

Halp!

Thanks

edit : tested more and actually even a simple textfield with no style doesn’t show anything.

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Textfields without textformat set work fine? Have you tried setting embedFonts on textfield to true?

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Try pairing Lime 2.3 with OpenFL 3.0.0-beta.3, or using an older Lime (2.1 or 2.2) with OpenFL 2.2.8

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Your extensions and things should work fine with the beta, so long as you use -Dlegacy when building

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Oh yeah, I forgot the -Dlegacy , sorry.

Well I tried that but unfortunately I have a linker error with SDLUiKitDelegate postFinishLaunch .

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Hello everyone,

I’m still struggling with my text showing problem.

I made a test project with nothing but this :

var textfield = new Textfield();
textfield.text = "test";
addChild(textfield);

and nothing shows up :’(

I used last lime (2.3) and last openfl (3 beta.3) in legacy mode.
Nobody else has the issue ?

edit : okay, build without -Dlegacy and now I have a runtime error after lime_font_load . After some googling it seems iOs 8.2 moved the font directory. So i guess my issue is related to the fact that lime can’t found default font anymore. Using embeded font may so temporary fix my issue as hcwdikk suggested.

edit2 : yep, just adding the used font in assets solved the issue. So i guess lime can’t found system fonts anymore on iOs.

edit3: btw it seems this iOs update is live since march 9th, I’m really surprised nobody had this issue .

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In the newer code, it looks here for _sans fonts:

fontList = [ systemFontDirectory + "/Arial Black.ttf", systemFontDirectory + "/Arial.ttf", systemFontDirectory + "/Helvetica.ttf" ];

The systemFontDirectory value is equal to /System/Library/Fonts/Cache

What should this be for 8.2?

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Well, it seems that people using unity had a related issue.
Unity solved this by looking for fonts in those directory :

  • “/System/Library/Fonts/Cache” // before iOS 8.2
  • “/System/Library/Fonts/AppFonts” // iOS 8.2
  • “/System/Library/Fonts/Core” // iOS 8.2
  • “/System/Library/Fonts/Extra” // iOS 8.2

I’d like to find a changelog in iOs release about those font change but all I found isa thread about missing charactere in unity 4.3 :
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/missing-font-characters-on-ios-8-2.310028/

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Ugh, multiple directories. Alright, we’ll have to do something

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Better late than never - I’ve submitted a pull request for fixing this bug in legacy lime.

Not looked at modern yet, as my current projects are still all legacy dependent.