Is it possible to use emojis in Sandbox?

[veniamin-ilmer]

I built small toy gui app, which has been using Sandbox thus far.

I would like to add a few emojis to it. The default font in my OS doesn't seem to support emojis.

Taking a look at examples (color picker and todos), I see we have to load the font with iced::font::load().

I attempted to run font::load(include_bytes!("../fonts/icons.ttf").as_slice()) inside of my Sandbox new method, but this did not load the font.

I see font::load returns a Command object. Am I supposed to run this somehow?

Application::new can return Command, but Sandbox cannot, hence I am troubled, not understanding what I should do with this Command object.

[hecrj]

Unless the font you want to use isn't one of your system fonts, you should not need to load it. iced supports font fallback now.

However, you need to opt-in to the Advanced shaping strategy on any Text that needs it:

iced/examples/todos/src/main.rs

Line 368 in 50ce65b

.text_shaping(text::Shaping::Advanced);