FONT PRELOADING

摘要

There is provided a method for preloading the glyphs required to display the content of a system. In accordance with an embodiment of the present technique, only those glyphs which are present in the system upon startup or synchronization of an electronic device are preloaded. The glyphs present upon startup or synchronization of the electronic device may be determined by scanning the system. In an illustrated embodiment, scanning the system may include analyzing models and views to determine the glyphs present in the system.

主权项

1. A method for loading glyphs, comprising:
determining, by a portable hand-held device during startup of the portable hand-held device, glyphs present in display information stored in non-volatile memory of the portable hand-held device based on character and character rendering attributes defined by the display information, wherein determining comprises scanning models and views stored on the portable hand-held device to determine the glyphs present in the display information; and preloading, from the non-volatile memory to a volatile memory of the portable hand-held device, only the glyphs having characters and attributes defined by the display information present on the portable hand-held device during startup of the portable hand-held device.