Ability to use Custom Icons (fapro)

[HadiHassaoui]

Enhancement Summary

Adding support ot use custom icons

Detailed Description

Is-it possible to add the possiblity to use custom icons (ex.: fapro:mycustomicon). mainly in main page where there no text on top chip/icon of the home page (would be nice everywhere too).

Additional Context

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[edwardtfn]

This is a bit more complex than it looks initially. The fonts must me loaded to the Nextion Display at build time, so we have to create a font with all the possible icons, in all the different sizes and load this to the TFT file when building it. And to make it worse, the fonts takes a lot of space which we don't have available... 😩

[HadiHassaoui]

I understand the issue, thanks for the fast answer and the precise explanation. and by the way that's a wonderfull work that you did.

[NdS-Research-Facilities]

I was trying to create a large (70~100 pt) mdi icon font, but didn't succeed.
Any hints on how to make these Nextion fonts from mdi would be greatly appreciated
(So not custom, just bigger)

[edwardtfn]

We use this tool, just changing the font size: https://github.com/edwardtfn/Generate-HASP-Fonts/blob/e1428f346777be69440f6bb00f1698815cb525d4/Generate-HASP-Fonts.ps1#L74

It creates a merging of two fonts, one for text, with ASCII chars only, and one for the icons, and merge both in a .zi file. You can play with that to generate only the icons, or even to use the custom icons you want, with the size you want.