New version: Gideros Studio 2012.09.7 and 2012.09.9

OZApps · January 2013

@Atilim, cool that makes sense, it was just confusing at first.

Tom2012 · February 2013

How do you set the width of a block of text please? So that is 'wraps' after 300px for example.

MobAmuse · February 2013

.9 is all good, app published/submitted to all storefronts without any problems. Cheers GiderOS team!

OZApps · February 2013

@Tom, you will have to add a letter and check the width when the width reached the target, you need to start a new line. That is how most text wrapping takes place.

petec · February 2013

I'm getting a strange result with ComickBook_Simple.ttf in 2012.09.9
The number 4 isn't aligning as it used to using 2012.09.2 - see attached pictures which were generated using this code:

local numbers={}
local font = TTFont.new("ComickBook_Simple.ttf", 80)
for c=1, 9 do
	numbers[c]=TextField.new(font, c)
	numbers[c]:setX(math.floor(c*70-numbers[c]:getWidth()/2))
	numbers[c]:setY(200)
	stage:addChild(numbers[c])
end

I've tried a different font and it behaves perfectly in both versions. It also works OK with ComickBook_Simple.ttf when using 2012.9.6. It's just 2012.9.9 causing the misalignment.
Any thoughts on what might be causing the problem and how I might beat it? I really want to use ComickBook_Simple.ttf as it has an 'open' 4.
Thanks, Pete

atilim · February 2013

Hi @petec,

ComickBook_Simple.ttf has a garbage/wrong kerning table (even Mac refuses to show it). I've deleted the kerning table and attaching the corrected font file. You can use it.

Tom2012 · February 2013

@OZApps

Thanks. At the moment I'm using the brilliant modified BMFont.lua which allows me to do this:

local signText = BMTextField.new(font, "text here...", 300, "justify")

So with the integrated bmfont in this version, I'd have to code a solution to width setting? Or is this something that is already in this addition to Gideros?

The documentation mentions:

"Talk about kerning, advance and widths.. TO BE WRITTEN MORE...."

So I'm perhaps jumping the gun a little.

petec · February 2013

Hi @atilim, thank you so much for sorting out the font. Your revised version works perfectly. Many many thanks, Pete.

OZApps · February 2013

@Tom, that is great I did not think there was a library that someone wrote already.

Tom2012 · February 2013

@OZApps sorry I should've provided a link to it:

https://github.com/nascode/BMFont

@Atilim - are these features in this new version of Gideros, without using this? Thanks

Nascode · February 2013

@Tom2012 @OZApps looks like i know whose mod it is

Alternatively you could use Textwrap lib by @ar2rsawseen https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/TextWrap

Using native bmf should be faster performance-wise. But if you want to animate per-letter then you could use my mod

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