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How to access Emoticons in FL?
Posted by Nick Cooke in
30 Nov 2010 — 4:38am
30 Nov 2010 — 4:38am
Does anybody have any idea how to access Emoticons (1F601 to 1F64F)?
The menu doesn't appear under the unicode ranges or codepages icons.
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30 Nov 2010 — 6:19am
Find the file uranges.dat and add this line at the end:
0x1F601, 0x1F64F, Emoticons
30 Nov 2010 — 8:59am
Thanks Johny, I quit FL, added that to the file, and restarted but it doesn't work.
30 Nov 2010 — 9:46am
The file or Fontlab? Platform?
Johnych
30 Nov 2010 — 9:50am
The file uranges.dat - I'm working on a Mac.
30 Nov 2010 — 10:54am
Reboot as well, Nick. I always have to reboot when I am editing any of those files before FonLab picks it up
30 Nov 2010 — 11:49am
Hello,
This is the end of my uranges.dat file
... and it works (at least on Windows)
FontLab restart is required but no reboot.
Best
Eigi
30 Nov 2010 — 1:36pm
Eigi, thanks.
Nick, can you see the similar Ranges menu when in the Unicode Ranges mode? Is it empty or what?
Johnych
1 Dec 2010 — 4:27am
I did reboot, it's still not there.
I wish it looked like that on a Mac instead of the most enormous list ever with no pull-downs.
1 Dec 2010 — 5:50am
Pulldowns appear if you switch to the mode when the menu is at the bottom of the Font window.
Emoticons have gone to Supplementary PUA-B somehow. You are better to use Eigi's screenshot as a sample.
And if nothing changes at all this means you have another one uranges.dat in your user Library/... folder.
Johnych
1 Dec 2010 — 6:33am
Pulldowns appear if you switch to the mode when the menu is at the bottom of the Font window.
I don't understand what that means - this is what it looks like on a Mac:
1 Dec 2010 — 6:39am
Nick,
Change your "View" mode to by "Name"
1 Dec 2010 — 6:46am
Also, that font showing looks like my handwriting. :-)
1 Dec 2010 — 7:20am
My handwriting thread.
I must be stupid today - Change your "View" mode to by "Name" - How? Where? in the font window?
1 Dec 2010 — 7:54am
To move the command bar to the bottom of the Font window, click the little round button on top of the scroll bar. Change modes by clicking the appropriate button when the bar is on top, or using the pulldown menu when the bar is on the bottom.
1 Dec 2010 — 8:17am
Thanks Justin, that's quite useful - Why can't it be like that when the command bar is at the top? just another quirk of FL I suppose. But it's still not there.
1 Dec 2010 — 8:56am
Nick, search for another uranges.dat then. :)
1 Dec 2010 — 9:24am
I can see what is happening now. When I insert the text into the uranges.dat file and save, it saves as an ImageBrowser cache Format file instead of a FontLab text file. Anybody have an idea how I keep it as a FL text file?
1 Dec 2010 — 9:55am
"My handwriting thread."
Shows that old type guys write alike :-)
1 Dec 2010 — 9:58am
Nick, use a text editor and save the file as ascii but with the .dat extension
1 Dec 2010 — 10:00am
Nick, the file icon doesn't matter. What is more important is that the file is in the wrong place. You must place it to the /Users/Nick/Library/Application Support/FontLab/Data/ folder.
Johnych
2 Dec 2010 — 2:31am
Bingo! That's it, got there in the end - thanks Johny.
2 Dec 2010 — 4:21am
Thanks God!
2 Dec 2010 — 10:32am
Bravo!