Re: [UFO-devel] Can't set a font

[Johannes S. <sch...@us...>]

On Friday 08 July 2005 19:39, Mark Robson wrote:
> I've got a CVS snapshot,  ufo-20050621.tar.gz
>
> This seems to work a lot better, at least I can set the font without
> it crashing. However, no font settings I make seem to make any
> difference.

Well, there aren't many fonts you can actually select.
There is only the builtin font renderer which has:
sans-serif font with point size 10,12
serif font with point size 10
mono spaced font with point size 8

and three textured fonts.

Furthermore, in older releases there was an X11/GLX font renderer
which can use all fonts visible to your X server.
If you are interested, I can fix it for current releases.

> Could you suggest a method to determine what fonts are available.

UToolkit->listFonts() should work ...
ATM, I am making some internal changes to font handling
so it might be broken ...

> Also, I tried to use texture fonts setting UFO_FONT and UFO_FONT_DIR,
> but the appearance is very poor (labels don't work at all, and buttons
> appear with the text displaced and off-centre). Is this a known bug?

Hmm, I thought that I have already fixed this ...

Possible values for UFO_FONT are:
builtin_font
gl_texture_font
texture_font

> Is there any reasonable way which I can set a custom font without
> writing my own font renderer?
>
> You have provided three font files, Arial_10.tga etc. Have you got the
> source code of the program which created these? Did it use Freetype or
> something to convert Truetype fonts? If so, can I have it so that I
> can use custom fonts in my app?

The texture fonts are created via UFO, SDL_ttf and truetype fonts.
The builtin fonts are created using plain X11.

I can give you source code and binaries.
Please be patient for one or two weeks as I have to pass
some important exams next week.


Regards,
Johannes