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GrumpyOne
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Posted: 16th Jun 2014 18:19 Edited at: 16th Jun 2014 18:20
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Hi,

I am new to AGK. I am trying to get a custom font for a text item working but the font is appearing as white boxes whatever I do. I am following the example and help instructions to the letter, but I have the feeling they leave out a crucial step.

I have a PNG image which is just a strip of number characters, this is in the media folder and called numbers.png. I have a text file called "numbers subimages.txt" in the same directory. It contains the following, defining characters 24 pixels wide by 28 pixels high. This file contains:

48:0:0:24:28
49:24:0:24:28
50:48:0:24:28
51:72:0:24:28
52:96:0:24:28
53:120:0:24:28
54:144:0:24:28
55:168:0:24:28
56:192:0:24:28
57:216:0:24:28

No dice.

I have tried - a PNG with transparent background and black characters, a PNG with white background and black characters, a PNG with white characters and black background, a PNG defined as greyscale and as RGB. No dice.

Does anyone know how to do this successfully?

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Posted: 16th Jun 2014 19:09
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hmm, can u attach a working example of your problem as zip?

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Posted: 16th Jun 2014 20:38
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Here you go, this is about as simple as it gets



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Posted: 16th Jun 2014 23:20 Edited at: 16th Jun 2014 23:21
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In older versions of AppGameKit (including the trial version) you must start your text subimages file with index '32' even if you don't use that character (space). Change your subimages file to:



Then recompile and it should be fine. You also should ALWAYS use white text on transparent background so that the text colors can be changed via SetTextColor() and SetTextCharColor().
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Posted: 17th Jun 2014 00:48 Edited at: 17th Jun 2014 01:32
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ahh,ok, if u bought agk please start min. with version 108 19.

your example was black on black but this work without char 32 at first in subimages text.


also a great free font tool for agk is this
http://www.warriorsofthecucumber.com/applications/bitmapfontcreator/

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Posted: 20th Jun 2014 15:25
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Yes, I am (for now) using the trial. Want to see how well AppGameKit performs, and so far I am impressed.

Indeed adding 32:0:0:0 makes custom text work on the trial version. Thanks for the advice.

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