Feature request: font selection gui

Quark · Post by **Quark** » 20 Jan 2007 01:59

Is it possible to make in-game menu for choosing font for freetype? Preview will be good.
Also as I unferstand it's not possible to select font style? Some fonts don't have separate bold font for example.

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 21 Jan 2007 12:18

Quark wrote:Is it possible to make in-game menu for choosing font for freetype? Preview will be good.
Also as I understand it's not possible to select font style? Some fonts don't have separate bold font for example.

Well, I started to make an in-game menu for it. It'll under game options, and probably it will have preview.. I'll post a screenshot soon...

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patch ChangeLog

0.1.0 - Initial release - gui, dropdown, apply...
0.2.0 - added bounding boxes
0.3.0 - added preview to the drop-down list
0.3.1 - updated to r10622
0.3.2 - fixed a bug with the 32bpp blitter
0.4.0 - option to antialias, for r10645
0.5.0 - selectable font style, for r10654
0.5.1 - for r???, based on the win version (forgot to release)
0.5.2 - nothing new, just compiles with r11643

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 21 Jan 2007 13:11

DirtY iCE wrote:Well, I started to make an in-game menu for it. It'll under game options, and probably it will have preview.. I'll post a screenshot soon...

And how do it find the fonts to put in the list?
Is it portable code or hardcoded for one OS?

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 21 Jan 2007 13:31

Bjarni wrote:And how do it find the fonts to put in the list?
Is it portable code or hardcoded for one OS?

Well, on Windows it can retrieved from registry, on Linux font-config can list the available fonts, and for other OS-es they will a custom-font option, where you can specific the font (as in openttd.cfg)...

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 27 Jan 2007 15:41

I'm struggling with the preview, and now it's only works with FontConfig, but it's near to finished state...

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 27 Jan 2007 15:45

Ooh, that looks quite handy, good work!

Juhl · Post by **Juhl** » 27 Jan 2007 23:24

Wow that looks great.

If this should be really helpful for all languages, the text shown in the preview should be defined in the language files. This would allow to preview speciel characters and charset.

Quark · Post by **Quark** » 28 Jan 2007 02:28

DirtY iCE wrote:I'm struggling with the preview, and now it's only works with FontConfig, but it's near to finished state...

Good work, but can you make font preview in drop-down list?

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 28 Jan 2007 09:17

Juhl wrote:If this should be really helpful for all languages, the text shown in the preview should be defined in the language files. This would allow to preview special characters and charset.

I've already done it that way..

Quark wrote:Good work, but can you make font preview in drop-down list?

show preview in the drop-down list looks cool, but it eats a lot of memory and CPU to load..

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 28 Jan 2007 12:06

DirtY iCE wrote:show preview in the drop-down list looks cool, but it eats a lot of memory and CPU to load..

Then make an on/off button so people can decide if they want to do so. People with high end computers might wants this and people with low end computers will not. I presume that you can free the memory allocated to this when the window is closed.

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 28 Jan 2007 13:22

Bjarni wrote:Then make an on/off button so people can decide if they want to do so. People with high end computers might wants this and people with low end computers will not. I presume that you can free the memory allocated to this when the window is closed.

Maybe I'll do that, but first I have to made preview work correctly

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 01 Feb 2007 18:38

Well, it likes as a working thing

I made the drop-down menu sorted, the preview works (I didn't know about that glyph cache), and the apply button works. But listing available fonts only works with FontConfig.. And I don't know how winapi work, so I think someone has to write that piece of code...

Just a small code cleanup and I'll upload the first patch (maybe tomorrow).. but until that I post some screenshot...

And a question: why doesn't this forum allow me to upload file, that name contain : (colon)?

Quark · Post by **Quark** » 02 Feb 2007 11:06

Is it possible to make font style selection available?

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 02 Feb 2007 15:42

Well, I just started to type a reply with the diff file, when I found a bug

But now, everything is working for me, but this piece of code are STILL EXPERIMENTAL, and it can (or may

) contain bugs, packed segfaults, and so on.. So use it at your OWN RISK!
If you try it, and it works, be happy! Or, if you found any bug, please send it to me (only the bug report.. I have many bugs at my home, so I don't need more) through e-mail or IM.

belugas · Post by **belugas** » 02 Feb 2007 18:21

Hell of a good job

Congrats

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 10 Feb 2007 19:32

Hi,

I'm a bit happy because I can announce the v. 0.2 of my patch.

I've added a feature that I only call bounding boxes. It does the following: it adds 3 boxes under each font preview. The green box means the font size with the original font. The orange box is a little bigger, and it means a size that usable in most cases, and the red box means, the font is too big...

I've uploaded the patch to my first post.

DarkFenX · Post by **DarkFenX** » 16 Feb 2007 16:12

Wow, great job

I've moved tahoma/tahoma bold .ttf files to my linux installation, but couldn't find a way to set bold tahoma w/o exact path to it... searched how i may do it with font-config or sth like it, but found this topic... imo without that gui freetype support for amateur users would be rather useless

Btw, i've compiled ottd with fontconfig support, but when i set "Tahoma Bold" as font - it doesn't find it. Only when i manually set path to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft/Tahoma_Bold.ttf".
If someone had faced this problem, please write how you've workarounded it.

DirtY iCE · Post by **DirtY iCE** » 16 Feb 2007 16:47

Hi, I'm here again:)

I've started to made the preview in the drop-down list, I actually did it, but it looks a quite funny...

DarkFenX: well, you're lucky! I needed to copy the bold font to an another directory, because it always reverted to the normal font - even with filename... but it only did it with bold fonts.. Italic fonts works nicely..
anyway, we should add a style option for the fonts.. but I don't know, what're the developers think about that

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 16 Feb 2007 19:23

DarkFenX wrote:Btw, i've compiled ottd with fontconfig support, but when i set "Tahoma Bold" as font - it doesn't find it. Only when i manually set path to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft/Tahoma_Bold.ttf".
If someone had faced this problem, please write how you've workarounded it.

Either Fontconfig, or the Fontconfig parser is gay; you need to type your fontname as "Tahoma, Bold" (not the comma, which seperates the font-name from the type).

I have no idea if you could actually force a style to a font if that font does not exist internally. Eg if 'System' only exists in normal style how to apply 'bold' or 'italics' to it. Not sure if FreeType2 has support for that.

DarkFenX · Post by **DarkFenX** » 16 Feb 2007 20:11

Thx, "Tahoma, Bold" worked as it supposed to

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