Linux 2d drawing tutorials

Post by **freak** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:12 am

Font name and style are ignored on linux. You pass that in the string with
the font name.
Yust have a look at what you get back from FontRequester(). You
have to pass that to LoadFont()

olejr · Post by **olejr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:29 am

Well FontRequester() return either 0 or 1...
But SelectedFontName() return the fontname string,
lets say "-urw-avantgarde-demibold-r-normal-*-*-280-*-*-p*-microsoft-cp1251".
So if you pass this one to the LoadFont() it's ok..
Trouble is when you do this in the source posted earlier
in the thread, you still get the default font...

nessie · Post by **nessie** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:48 am

@Freak: Do you know if this is going to be sorted in the next release, or should I look for another alternative?

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:46 am

Last time I talked to Fred about using different fonts with 2d Drawing commands under Linux, he said they were not yet supported.

As a solution I ended up drawing my own font set and displaying as sprites.

nessie · Post by **nessie** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:58 am

I thought about this to Paul, at the moment I'm trying to use BMP fontts. I suppose I can work on the rest of the app for the next month or so and hopefully then an update will have been issued.

Post by **Fred** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:23 am

That's right, regular fonts aren't supported with sprite commands for now. I don't know if it will be solved in the next release tough. But I will take a closer look to this problem, it won't stay unfixed.

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:39 pm

Cool. I hope you can figure it out =)