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clicker

Fonts
Jan 24^th, 2007, 9:31pm

Hi There,

I am new here and I do programming for the first time. Its kind of difficult because I am Polish and not a native, so I have difficulties with understanding everything correctly sometimes.

But I was already successful in doing some examples of the "Learning Page".

Now I would like to load the font but I don't understand how to proceed. Fonts should be located within the main Processing directory folder.----I cannot find them there. Where do I have to look exactly? "Fonts must be placed within the data directory ot the sketch." How do I do this?

Looking forward for some help.
With thanks,

clicker

fjen

Re: Fonts
Reply #1 - Jan 24^th, 2007, 10:05pm

inside Processing, click "Tools" in the top-menu. select "Create Font .." and then another window pops open. select the font you want to use, choose a size, copy the name and click OK. now back in the main window you can do:

PFont myFont = loadFont( "Name Of The Font.vlw" ); // paste the name in .. add ".vlw"

the font has been created for you and was placed inside your sketch folder by Processing. the loadFont-name should match the filename ....

here's how to use fonts:
http://processing.org/reference/PFont.html

good luck,
F

clicker

Re: Fonts
Reply #2 - Jan 25^th, 2007, 3:24am

Hi,

thank you so much, your description was helpful!
I have "created" this here:

PFont font;
font = loadFont ("AharoniBold-48.vlw");
textFont (font, 20);
int x = 30;
fill(0);
text ("here", x, 20);
fill (52);
text ("we", x, 45);
fill (52);
text ("go", 50, 80);

How can I make these words somehow movable or made them loop. I wonder in which order commands have to be stated.
Maybe I can ask you for an example made out of my "my creation"?

It will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!!

JohnG

Re: Fonts
Reply #3 - Jan 25^th, 2007, 11:09am

If you want to make them move, then you'll have to step up to the slighly more complicated Processing syntax:

Code:

PFont font;
int x;
void setup()
{
  size(200,200);
  font = loadFont ("AharoniBold-48.vlw");
  textFont (font, 20);  
  x=30;
}

void draw()
{
  background(255); // white screen, clears last frame, or everything will smear.
  fill(0);
  text ("here", x, 20);
  fill (52);
  text ("we", x, 45);
  fill (52);
  text ("go", 50, 80); 
  x=x+1; 
}

clicker

Re: Fonts
Reply #4 - Jan 26^th, 2007, 3:25am

Thank you!!

And how do I make the words come down?
I guessed I should change x to y but nothing changed:

PFont font;
int y;
void setup()
{
size(200,200);
font = loadFont ("AngsanaNew-48.vlw");
textFont (font, 30);
y=10;
}

void draw()
{
background(255);
fill(0);
text ("here", y, 20);
fill (52);
text ("we", y, 45);
fill (52);
text ("go", y, 80);
y=y+1;
}

JohnG

Re: Fonts
Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2007, 9:31am

changing what you call the variable doesn't change anything, what matters is where in the function call you put it:

Code:


text("here",y,20);
 .    ^     ^  ^- Y-position
 .   The    |   
 .  text    X-position

So you see even though you've called it y, it's in the X-position space, so that's what it does, change the X position. To make it change the Y position you want:

Code:

fill(0);
text("here",20,y);
fill(52);
text("we",20,y+25); // +25 or it'll be directly on top of "here"
// etc, etc.

anachronik

Re: Fonts
Reply #6 - Jan 26^th, 2007, 9:40am

in your sketch x and y are just the name of variables so u can call them as u want (even foobar) it won't change the way ur program work.

If you look at the reference for text() it says text(data, x, y) with x for x-coordinate of text and y for y-coordinate of text.

So if you want it to scroll down u need to modify the third parameters of text() like that :

PFont font;
int y; //or u can initialize it there int y=0;
void setup()
{
size(200,200);
font = loadFont ("AngsanaNew-48.vlw");
textFont (font, 30);
y=0;
}

void draw()
{
background(255);
fill(0);
text ("here", 20, y);
fill (52);
text ("we", 45, y);
fill (52);
text ("go", 80, y);
y=y+1;
}

And if u want the text to loop between the top of the screen and the bottom u can try that :

PFont font;
int y; //or u can initialize it there int y=0;
void setup()
{
size(200,200);
font = loadFont ("AngsanaNew-48.vlw");
textFont (font, 30);
y=30;
}

void draw()
{
background(255);
fill(#F7B711);
text ("here", 20, y);
fill (52);
text ("we", 90, y);
fill (52);
text ("go", 140, y);
if (y > height-30){
y=30;
}
else{
y=y+1;
}
}

Hope it helps.

anachronik Junior Member Offline Posts: 80	Re: Fonts Reply #7 - Jan 26^th, 2007, 9:42am oups sorry am at work and didn't saw u already give an anwser !!!

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