using fonts problem

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

im having problems trying to load a font and display a string. all i seem to get is a little red blob.
heres the source code.

import java.io.;
import java.awt.;
import java.awt.event.*;

// font found @ http://www.1001fonts.com/fonts/win/ttf/2932/myscars.zip

class FrameResponce extends WindowAdapter
{
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
{
System.exit(0);
}
}

class FrameExt extends Frame
{
private Font gameFont;

public FrameExt()
{
	try
	{
		gameFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,new File("MYSCARS_.ttf"));
		
		setTitle("Font Test");
		setSize(640,480);
		setResizable(false);
		addWindowListener(new FrameResponce());
		setVisible(true);
	}
	catch(Exception e)
	{
		System.out.println("*** Exception ***");
		System.out.println("Message: "+e.getMessage());
		System.out.println("Cause:   "+e.getCause());
		System.exit(0);
	}
}

public void paint(Graphics g)
{
	g.setColor(Color.black);
	g.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
	g.setColor(Color.red);
	g.setFont(gameFont);
	gameFont.deriveFont(64.0f);
	g.drawString("Loading...",getWidth()/2,getHeight()/2);
}

}

class FontTest
{
public static void main(String arg[])
{
FrameExt fext = new FrameExt();
}
}

#2

first of all

use code tags

second, for your font to display correctly you need to:

a) have a true type font (.ttf) or adobe type1 font.
b) make sure that font has unicode support (must contain a unicode glyphe map)

It’s probably unicode problem.
was trying to use custom (non-system) font few days ago and I was greatly dissapointed. I mean if font dosen’t support unicode why not properly display things that it supports? I don’t even need something other then standard english letters. Anyway I was told to search for some converter that would convert font to unicode one, I didn’t searched yet.

#3

i have fixed the problem by placing the above font in c:\windows\font folder and then replacing Font.createFont with the Font contstructor and now it works fine.

#4

well it might work but it’s not a solution since you put stuff into user’s windows folder… but since it works that means createFont() should work also (or ???). I have the font in fonts directory and it dosen’t work.

#5

you might as well just bitmap the entire font and then just draw each letter as an image. that will give you a boost in FPS anyway …

#6

that’s a good idea, but it would be pain in the ass to cut out all characters in good size and there’s always font size problem.
Actually since I don’t have any important runtime created text I was planning to do all text in photoshop and then use pictures (if I don’t find proper unicode font).