Marcel Wierckx

I was overjoyed to hear about support for emoji characters, although maybe slightly disappointed that it was only available in the patching window and not in the jit.gl.text object. So to adapt my patch (which takes chat messages from an iOS/Android app and displays them onscreen, see https://cycling74.com/articles/tin-men-and-the-telephone-you-have-one-new-message), I created a subpatch with a transparent background and used comment objects to display the text overtop of a jit.window. Woo hoo it worked! But oh no... 8.1 comes along and breaks my majestic hack.

So, it would be awesome if emoji support could be implemented in jit.gl.text as well as in the patcher window. Or if there was some way that I could roll back that part of the last update that prevents transparent subpatches from redrawing. I've already gone back to an older version to keep the show running, but was hoping to take advantage of some of the latest features of 8.1.

We do lots of performances for young audiences, who for some reason no longer use the alphabet and it's very embarrassing when the screen is full of question marks.

thanks otherwise for all the other 8.1 awesomeness!

We do lots of performances for young audiences, who for some reason no longer use the alphabet and it's very embarrassing when the screen is full of question marks.

thanks otherwise for all the other 8.1 awesomeness!

I was overjoyed to hear about support for emoji characters, although maybe slightly disappointed that it was only available in the patching 

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We are working on a fix for the "transparent" patcher background issues in 8.1, so hopefully you should see an improvement in the next release, and I've noted your request for emoji support in jit.gl.text.

As an alternative, I'd recommend finding a free library of Emojis that has SVG versions, like Twemoji:

https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/tree/gh-pages/svg

You can then take those SVGs and display them via jit.mgraphics svg_create/svg_render. I've used the "sine" wave svg in the Max distro as an example here:

We are working on a fix for the "transparent" patcher background issues in 8.1, so hopefully you should see an improvement in the next release, and I've noted your request for emoji support in jit.gl.text. 

As an alternative, I'd recommend finding a free library of Emojis that has SVG versions, like Twemoji:
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/tree/gh-pages/svg 

well I'll be damned, looks like jit.mgraphics and jit.lcd can display emojis! I hadn't thought about either of these objects since before I had grey hair. I think I can adapt my patches without too much trouble.

Thanks Ben for putting me on the right track.

well I'll be damned, looks like jit.mgraphics and jit.lcd can display emojis! I hadn't thought about either of these objects since before I had grey hair. I think I can adapt my patches without too much trouble.
Thanks Ben for putting me on the right track.


Great discovery, this is much easier than my suggestion!!

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