PocketMatrix

I know that earlier versions had a built in font. While I have been using GDI fonts these are just too slow for use in the main game loop.

I suggest that interested parties discuss the requirement with a view to either sharing the work to implement an add-on or even better having font support included within PocketFrog.

In PocketGL the simple letters as a bitmap approach is taken one step further by including character width information. This gives a slightly better look than a simple fixed font though is still restricted in size. While it is possible to code access to TTF font data this would be much more work & would be slower again.

I will look at the method used in GapiDraw to see if it's easy enough to follow.

What does the FP community think ?

I still use the Bitmap Builder by LMNOpc, it has some options to save font width as well.

http://www.lmnopc.com/bitmapfontbuilder/

But what I would like to see is a font class where you give the name of the windows font when you create the class. And it will render all chars to a bitmap as well as saving the width of every char at creation.

Quite simple to implement in PF really... but never got around to actually do it.

I am going to have a good look at this font builder. (It may be the same or similar to the PocketGL font)

Do you already have a working function to utilise these fonts? If so is it clean enough to share?
If not I will write my own at the weekend.

I agree that supporting TTF would be the best approach but it's more work than I can handle at the moment.