TLMDFontCollection support for "Material Design Icons Desktop"

Andre Santos

Hi,

I'm Trying to use the TLMDFontCollection component with the very complete "Material Design Icons Desktop":

TTF: https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign-Font

Source: https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/

However it seems im unable to use it since it fails to get the unicode codes. I noticed they seem to the codes are not supported by the component.

Any help would be appreciated since it's a very complete collection of material style icons. I'm using the latest LMD 2022 version.

I've attached the TTF and the Codes in a Zipped file.

Thanks!

Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

The list of code-points is not a part of the font. It can be loaded separately into font collection item Codepoints property. The format is the following:

ab-testing F01C9

abacus F16E0

abjad-arabic F1328

abjad-hebrew F1329

abugida-devanagari F132A

abugida-thai F132B

access-point F0003

access-point-check F1538

...

However, it's not a good idea to store such a big list of codepoints in form's dfm file. So, i would suggest to work without codepoint list, typing hex numbers directly.

Andre Santos

Hi Eugene,

Thanks for your answer, however it seems that large unicode codes are not supported by TLMDFontCollection:

For example this char (F09F0):

see Image A

I put the code-point:

see Image B

But when i select the image it looses the first F and gets me the respective Glyph

see Image C

If I type directly in the object inspector:

See Image D

How can I enter codes larger then 65535?

Andre Santos

Images

Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

Hmm. We use WideChar which is two bytes long in Delphi. I need to think how to process such values.

Andre Santos

Thanks, hope the component can support longer values in the near future