Font/TTFont and setTextColor()

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Works here.
  
  self.titles[loop].shadow=TextField.new(fontLarge,self.titles[loop].text)
  self.titles[loop].shadow:setTextColor(0x000000)
  self.titles[loop].main=TextField.new(fontLarge,self.titles[loop].text)
  self.titles[loop].main:setTextColor(self.titles[loop].colour)
  self.titles[loop].main:setPosition(-5,-5)
  self.titles[loop].shadow:addChild(self.titles[loop].main)
  self:addChild(self.titles[loop].shadow)

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2014 Accepted Answer

  @FlimFlamboyant the color settings most probably won't work if you are not using vector fonts, like TrueType fonts
  If you are using for example, Bitmap font, basically each letter as an image, then yes it probably won't work, but as you said the colors can be transformed

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• OZApps Guru

  March 2014

  @FlimFlamboyant, for bitmapped fonts, try to use the setColorTransform to tint the text color.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  March 2014

  @ar2rsawseen - `i'm using bitmapped pre-created fonts and it works here.

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• FlimFlamboyant Member

  March 2014

  Yep, I did indeed use setColorTransform instead. I just thought I'd point it out, due to the inconsistency of it. I can understand the why from the back-end point of view, but it just seems a little weird from the other end.

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• simwhi Member

  January 2015

  Hi,
  
  I came across this issue today. setTextColour worked for me after I recreated the font using the Gideros font creator. The font was previous created using a different tool.
  
  It seemed to display text fine but the text colour remained white.
  
  I hope this helps someone.
  
  Simon
  
  

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