How do I get a larger text size and different fonts?

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:11:32 +0000

Howdy,

How do I get a larger text size and different fonts? I don't like the default font in allegro, so how do I load and/or make new fonts for allegro that I can use? And how do I make a font bigger?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Onewing) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:13:23 +0000

Start here...

no-reply@allegro.cc (type568) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:54:47 +0000

I had such a Q too.. what i didn't get there is how to modify the sizes.. or it must be a lrage font itself? :S

no-reply@allegro.cc (Kikaru) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:57:02 +0000

It must be a large font itself. I have considered making something to handle scaling, though I don't know how well it would work...

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:00:56 +0000

So how do I make a .fnt file?

no-reply@allegro.cc (ImLeftFooted) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:41:20 +0000

Quote:

How do I get a larger text size and different fonts? I don't like the default font in allegro, so how do I load and/or make new fonts for allegro that I can use? And how do I make a font bigger?

Allegro is not a font library. If you want to manipulate fonts use a font library.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:42:42 +0000

http://www.allegro.cc/files/ttf2pcx.zip

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:01:21 +0000

Wait a minute...... I tried calling load_font() and it didn't work.....it said the function didn't exist....

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:13:57 +0000

Use version 4.2.1.

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:24:33 +0000

Okay, I got 4.2.1 but now my compiler returns a warning that says that some functions are "deprecated". What does that meen?

no-reply@allegro.cc (BAF) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:29:46 +0000

You need to use textprintf_ex, textout_ex, etc now that the older ones are deprecated. It's just a warning, meaning that those functions aren't supposed to be used anymore and could be removed at anytime.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:29:58 +0000

It means that they have been replaced with something better and might go away in the future (like in 1,000 years).

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:31:56 +0000

Okay thanks.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Kirr) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:37:44 +0000

You can also try Glyph Keeper. It can load TTF fonts and render text or create Allegro FONTs from them. It can render angled, italic, bold, translucent, antialiased fonts, etc.. Full list of features is here.

no-reply@allegro.cc (James Stanley) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:46:21 +0000

You could also scale the font by code (I did this for the menu screen of my current game. Then I replaced the code generated one with a bitmap).

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:57:50 +0000

I loaded a font with

FONT *myfont;
myfont = load_font("myfont.pcx",NULL,NULL);

What do I do next?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Onewing) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:04:53 +0000

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What do I do next?

Use it?

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:10:16 +0000

I tried doing this

FONT *myfont;
myfont = load_font("myfont.pcx",NULL,NULL);

textout_ex(screen,myfont,"Stuff",0,0,makecol(255,255,255),-1);

but it didn't work... am I missing a step? (or 2)

no-reply@allegro.cc (Kitty Cat) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:18:38 +0000

Define 'didn't work'.

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:52:45 +0000

When I launched the exe file it crashed in an instant. What's wrong?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Onewing) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:58:39 +0000

Quote:

What's wrong?

Let me guess...something.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Kitty Cat) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:19:59 +0000

Maybe trying to use a NULL pointer for the font. Did you check to make sure load_font actually succeeded?

no-reply@allegro.cc (blargmob) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:49:22 +0000

I fixed. Ha ha. Stupid problem, I accidentely loaded the file with the wrong name.