Using fonts

h314

I've just started trying python mode, so I'm probably missing something very obvious, but essentially, my problem is that I can't seem to set the font. The code that pertains to my font looks something like this:

def setup (): font = createFont ("Numbers.ttf", width / 62)

def draw (): textFont (font, width / 62)

However, this gives me an error saying that font is not defined. I assumed that I couldn't use font outside of setup, so I tried putting "font = None" at the beginning, so that it would be a global variable, but then it just says that a null font was passed to textFont. I also can't put "font = createFont ("Numbers.ttf", width / 62)" at the beginning, because it must be in setup, and putting textFont in setup doesn't seem to work either. What am I doing wrong?

h314

Well I sort of got it to work, using the create font tool, loadFont, and putting textFont in setup, but I would still like to know if it's possible to use a ttf, because from my understanding, ttf works better if the font will be scaled, and I do plan on scaling.

GoToLoop

https://Forum.Processing.org/two/discussion/15473/how-to-format-code-and-text

In Python, when we assign a value to a variable, it's assumed to be local to its function, unless we declare it as global. :-B

https://Py.Processing.org/reference/globals.html

def setup():
    global font
    font = createFont('Numbers.ttf', width/62, True)

But in case 'Numbers.ttf' is the only font you're gonna need in your whole sketch, you can simply use textFont() right there within setup(): :ar!

def setup():
    textFont(createFont('Numbers.ttf', width/62, True))

No need for any global font variable at all this time! :)>-

h314

Well now I feel really dumb. I just realized that "numbers.ttf" is not capitalized...