[MaxGUI] setgadgetfont working example? On canvas?

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Booticus

(Posted 2006) [#1]

Hello all. I cant seem to get one, ONE ever-lovin example of the setgadgetfont to work. Would someone give me a simple demo of a canvas, and some font being set as the canvas font? Hell, I'll even settle for a settextareafont! Also, would the following work for incbin:

	IncBin "../Media/Fonts/bitdust1.ttf"
	Global bitdust1:TGuiFont=LoadGuiFont("incbin::../Media/Fonts/bitdust1.ttf",18,False,False,False)
	SetGadgetFont cavMyCanvas,bitdust1

Also, would I have to use the directory specific load for the font? I mean thats the way I've done it for the plain old regular font loading in the past.

WendellM

(Posted 2006) [#2]

Here's my understanding:

SetGadgetFont requires a GuiFont, except for the canvas (which is really a graphical item) which uses ImageFont. The ways to load these two are different: LoadImageFont wants the filename (where the file needs to be renamed to the Windows name of the font if it isn't already) while LoadGuiFont just wants the Windows font name without the ".ttf". LoadGuiFont only works if the font is loaded in Windows (i.e. shows up in Windows' font list), while LoadImageFont can load the .ttf whether it's loaded in Windows or not.

Copy Arial.ttf to the same folder as this example for LoadImageFont to work:

Strict

Local win:TGadget = CreateWindow( "", 0,0, 400,200 )
Local can:TGadget = CreateCanvas( 0,0, 400,80, win )
SetGraphics CanvasGraphics( can )
SetBlend ALPHABLEND

DrawText "This is default font", 10,10
Local iFont:TImageFont = LoadImageFont( "Arial.ttf", 24 )
SetImageFont iFont
DrawText "This should be Arial (and bigger)", 10,40
Flip

Local but1:TGadget = CreateButton( "default font", 10,90, 80,30, win )
Local but2:TGadget = CreateButton( "Arial", 110,90, 80,30, win )
Local gFont:TGuiFont = LoadGuiFont( "Arial", 24 )
SetGadgetFont but2, gFont

Repeat
	WaitEvent
Until EventID() = EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE

(Sorry, I haven't messed with Incbin.)

Booticus

(Posted 2006) [#3]

Hey thanks! I appreciate it! But also, I found out that I had a "Sofa King" moment. I forgot to:

Import brl.freetypefont

Thanks Wendell!!!

Sofa King