Loading fonts

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William Drescher

(Posted 2008) [#1]

How do I load a font like Arial or something into my blitzmax program? It's alot more complicated that Blitz3D or BlitzPlus.

GfK	(Posted 2008) [#2]

How do I load a font like Arial or something into my blitzmax program? It's alot more complicated that Blitz3D or BlitzPlus.

No its not.

LoadImageFont()
SetImageFont()

Grey Alien

(Posted 2008) [#3]

Be warned that DrawText is pretty slow though, you may want to think about using Bitmap fonts instead...

William Drescher

(Posted 2008) [#4]

I tried that and both Bitmap fonts and regular *.ttf and *.fon kind of fonts dont write correctly at all

grable

(Posted 2008) [#5]

You need a relative or absolute path to the font you are loading.

Graphics 320,240, 0

DrawText "Internal Default", 50,40

SetImageFont LoadImageFont( "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf", 50)
DrawText "Arial 50", 50,60

SetImageFont LoadImageFont( "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\impact.ttf", 50)
DrawText "Impact 50", 50,120

Flip
WaitKey

That little snippet should look like this on windows

If it doesnt, there could be some graphics/driver problem...