Three module issues from a new user

[vildhjelm]

@sdetweil
I managed to get unique icons for each calendar, through trial and error with font awesome. Not all “free” fonts are supported, I think “brands” aren’t.
Do you know, if I can set icons that I’ve stored locally? There are a lot on the noun project that would be excellent :).

[sdetweil]

@vildhjelm said in Three module issues from a new user:

Do you know, if I can set icons that I’ve stored locally?

i do not know myself, but I would think you could

<img icon="68" src="/img/emoji/U263a.ico" alt=":-)" />

the base for MM web server is MagicMirror, so

src="/modules/{modulename}/{sub_folder}/{filename}"

replace {} with the appropriate name, if any

[sdetweil]

@vildhjelm where u able to get this working?

[skyfall]

Hi all, was working on the same thing.

Some icons I wanted to use are in brands, and can’t figure out how to invoke it properly. Tried adding imports in fontawesome.css for it, but no go. Anyone know how/why brands wont work? They are considered free use.

[sdetweil]

@skyfall I do not KNOW for sure… maybe they have to be downloaded separately?

see the last few posts here on getting separate fonts usable after download

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8758/change-fonts/6?_=1650986841007

[skyfall]

@sdetweil I don’t think so, I’ve been looking into it and it is included in all.min.css; that’s where the other ones get imported from. Maybe we’re not invoking it properly since the FA 4->6 upgrade that happened in January?

[sdetweil]

@skyfall

maybe all you have to do is npm install the right stuff in the vendor folder

"dependencies": {
	"@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^6.1.1",

and this is in the vendor/css/font-awesome.css

@import url(“…/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css”);
@import url("…/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/v4-shims.min.

these files are in the folder

sam@sams:~/MagicMirror/vendor/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css$ ls

all.css fontawesome.min.css svg-with-js.css v4-shims.min.css
all.min.css regular.css svg-with-js.min.css v5-font-face.css
brands.css regular.min.css v4-font-face.css v5-font-face.min.css
brands.min.css solid.css v4-font-face.min.css
fontawesome.css solid.min.css v4-shims.css

i looked up one of the items listed in brands, .fa-apple-pay
in all.css… and its there

[skyfall]

@sdetweil I think we’re on to something here. I’m embarassed but I did notice my dependencies were out of date. I was running FA 5.13.3. Reinstalled and reverified and now running 6.1.1. However, when invoking ‘canadian-maple-leaf’ for example, it’s now showing a broken icon symbol versus nothing!

I did also notice it isn’t loading the .woff2 file for the brands fonts, even though it is in the correct directory.

[skyfall]

I’ve figured it out!

Like the original post, I’m working with Calendar module. I wanted to understand why we could write, say symbol: “cloud” instead of having to declare the full “fas fa-fw fa-cloud” to invoke the symbol.

I went into /modules/default/calendar/calendar.js and noticed the following section of code:

const symbols = this.symbolsForEvent(event);
                                symbols.forEach((s, index) => {
                                        const symbol = document.createElement("span");
                                        symbol.className = "fas fa-fw fa-" + s;
                                        if (index > 0) {
                                                symbol.style.paddingLeft = "5px";
                                        }
                                        symbolWrapper.appendChild(symbol);
                                });
                                eventWrapper.appendChild(symbolWrapper);
                        } else if (this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders") {
                                const blankCell = document.createElement("td");
                                blankCell.innerHTML = "   ";
                                eventWrapper.appendChild(blankCell);
                        }

calendar.js is hardcoding the fas (solid) font family in, not allowing us to invoke a family like fab (brands). setting the line:

symbol.className = "fas fa-fw fa-" + s;

to just:

symbol.className = s;

forces us to redeclare every symbol in config.js from “cloud” to “fas fa-fw fa-cloud”, but we can now access all available FA icons.

And so, I get my leaf :)

Screen Shot 2022-04-28 at 17.37.44

[sdetweil]

@skyfall awesome