Looking for help to port FontLabel and ZFont for Mac

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Looking for help to port FontLabel and ZFont for Mac

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Started 1 year ago by quakeboy
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quakeboy
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I want to port Fontlabel working for Mac and contribute to cocos2d. Are there guidelines to be followed for coding standards, plz let me know where they are.

Everything except FontLabel.h and FontLabel.m use only CG classes and NS classes. So I assume only FontLabel needs major porting as it directly extends from UILabel which has to be replaced with NSLabel ?

Please let me know if I am wrong. Right now I am going be just enable CC_FONT_LABEL_SUPPORT and start porting FontLabel .h and .m files. If I am missing anything else let me know. I need directions please.

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

I'm not sure if porting FontLabel is the best approach. I guess that there should be other ways to load custom .TTF files into Mac. I would google: "OpenGL TTF Mac" or something like that.

Posted 1 year ago #
quakeboy
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Thanks for the reply. I had tried some methods.

After seeing this line
[stringWithAttributes drawAtPoint:NSMakePoint(xPadding, POTHigh-dimensions.height)]; // draw at offset position

I realized if the NSAttributedString is set with a custom font, the problem could be solved. I somehow tried to load a CGFont into it with some code snippets found around the web and stackoverflow.

The code compiled and ran, but it did not use the font I specified. I tried with 4 different custom TTFs and always output was with the same font whose name I couldn't find. Anyways now that you have mentioned it. But when I try with Arial it gives me exactly Arial with LabelTTF class.

Anyways now that you have mentioned not to port FontLabel I will fall back into old approach.

Cheers thanks Riq

Posted 1 year ago #
quakeboy
Member

I think I am almost there
Have to deal with the slight text cut off at the right side. Any pointers Riq ?

Posted 1 year ago #
Jonathan
Member

Hello, any news on the Mac port of Fontlabel?
Have you resolved the clipping?

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

@quakeboy: Nice! But I have no idea... try to make the texture larger.

Posted 1 year ago #
finder39
Member

I would love to know how this is going!

Posted 1 year ago #
quakeboy
Member

I got it to work like above. And then I realized I totally needed multi line text and I didn't know how to get that to work.

I had to read more about text and typography, but due to time constraints, I converted everything needed to bitmap fonts :(

Posted 1 year ago #
quakeboy
Member

Probably I can share the code changes I did to CCTexture2d class. Will post the code in a few hours

Posted 1 year ago #
quakeboy
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Modified CCTexture2d with Custom font support on Mac (not multiline)
https://gist.github.com/901229

Posted 1 year ago #

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