Any example code for colored emoji rendering on Windows?

[Ender22]

I read in a recent discussion that a few versions ago, there was a change that added DirectDraw for the reason of adding colored emoji support on Windows.

Does anyone have any code samples of how to display colored emojis on Windows, preferably while using Starling and Feathers?

I've tried a few different text renderers and components, but with no luck so far. The emojis are always black and white on Windows for me. 😄

If no code samples, some detailed pointers would really help. Does it only work with specific text renderers and with specific fonts? Currently, I use Feathers TextInput (with isEditable = false) and StageTextTextEditor to render textfields that contain emojis.

[ajwfrost]

The change is specifically around the use of the Flash Text Engine classes, which in Feathers are used in the TextBlockTextRenderer (i.e. using flash.text.engine.TextBlock and flash.text.engine.TextLine.

There's also a restriction in it currently only working in CPU renderMode .. we should see if we can get it working in direct mode too, at least..

Other than that -> there's no code changing or anything, it should just switch over to using this if it can.

thanks

[Ender22]

"There's also a restriction in it currently only working in CPU renderMode"

Ah... okay... this is why none of my experiments with different text engine classes worked.
I'm curious why we even talk about support on Feathers at all, since Starling and Feathers don't work with cpu rendermode.

Would be super excited to get this enabled for Starling projects, my clients hate the black and white emojis

[ajwfrost]

I'm curious why we even talk about support on Feathers at all, since Starling and Feathers don't work with cpu rendermode.

Oh yes! Well, mostly because I had written the first part before I then checked the code to see what the restriction was, I thought it might have just been that it didn't work with GPU mode. I think it should be feasible to enable this for Direct-mode, it's just a case of ensuring we render to the right place for it to be uploaded to the texture..

thanks

[Ender22]

Nice, looking forward to it!