Bug? roFontRegistry.Register("bad/path/nofile.ttf") returns true, even if fonts not registered

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Is this a bug for anyone else?

reg = CreateObject("roFontRegistry")
ok = reg.Register("pkg:/bad-path/or-no-font.ttf")
if ok
    ?"Always true, despite:"
    ?" - not registering fonts (no file or corrupted file)"
    ?" - bad paths"
    ?"Font count: ";reg.GetFamilies().Count()
endif

Roku OS: 11.5.0 build 4312-C2

2

The font object will be create latter, I guess that roFontRegistry just hold file name and do nothing till you ask the registry to create a roFont object.

Have a look how I do create the fonts in my game engine:

m.fontRegistry = {}
            for each font in collection.fonts
                uri = "pkg:/"+font.filename
                if m.fontRegistry[uri] = invalid then
                    m.fontRegistry[uri] = CreateObject("roFontRegistry")
                    m.fontRegistry[uri].Register(uri)
                end if
                rokuFont = m.fontRegistry[uri].GetFont(m.fontRegistry[uri].GetFamilies()[0],font.fontSize, false, false)
                m.fonts[font.name] = { 
                    font: rokuFont,
                    spacing: font.spacing
                }
            end for
3

Yes, I just checked the code and the error reporting for bad filenames was lost during a refactor. If you register an invalid file, it will just have no effect on the set of fonts available. I’ll file an internal bug to fix this in a future OS release.

4

Thanks for the info @pkuzmenko and @RokuBen and looking into it. :+1: