Assertion when using unicode character greater than 2048 - CCBitmapFontAtlas

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Assertion when using unicode character greater than 2048 - CCBitmapFontAtlas

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Started 2 years ago by carlosh
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carlosh
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I was trying to use the infinity(∞) character on my game, but was getting an error from the CCBitmapFontAtlas class, "BitmpaFontAtlas: CharID bigger than supported", so checking the code, I found out there was an assertion.

NSAssert(characterDefinition->charID < kBitmapFontAtlasMaxChars, @"BitmpaFontAtlas: CharID bigger than supported");

And kBitmapFontAtlasMaxChars has a defined value of 2048. The thing is that the infinity char is id 8734. So I just changed the value of kBitmapFontAtlasMaxChars to 8735, and now everything works fine.

I am using Hiero to generate my font file. So is there any issue changing this value?

Posted 2 years ago #
carlosh
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So anyone? Is there any issues? I haven't had any. I need to change it every time I update to the latest cocos2D revision. Not a big deal, but if I forget to replace that number, my app will crash. Can it be changed in trunk?

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

You can modify it in your local repository. Of course, it would be nice to support all 65536 characters.

The easy way to do it, it to replace 2048 with 65536. But the downside is that it will always consume 64k when, sometimes, 256 chars would be enough.

So, in order to do it properly, a dynamic dictionary should be created when characters above 256 are found.

Would like implementing that feature ?

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
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Added issue 770:
http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-iphone/issues/detail?id=770

Posted 1 year ago #
carlosh
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Cool. I will check the code, and find some time to implement it. Will let you know later. Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #

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