Loading font from memory help needed...

[Dav]

Try these @Dav :

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'load from file into fontdata$

OPEN "c:\windows\fonts\courbd.ttf" FOR BINARY AS 1

fontdata$ = INPUT$(LOF(1), 1)

CLOSE



'load courbd from fontdata$ string memory

myfont& = _LOADFONT(fontdata$, 32, "memory, monospace")

_FONT myfont&

PRINT "Hello World"



SLEEP



SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 480, 32)

myfont& = _LOADFONT(fontdata$, 32, "memory")

_FONT myfont&

PRINT "Hello World"

What was the glitch?  If you look at the top code, you'll notice that you're in a SCREEN 0 text screen.  SCREEN 0 *requires* that all fonts used for it has to be MONOSPACE specified when loaded.  Without the "monospace" you can't load the font in memory and use it in SCREEN 0.

If you look at the second segment of the above, you'll notice that I'm not using "monospace", and yet it's working.  This is because 32-bits screens support variable-width fonts and they don't have to have that flag enabled when loading them.

The issue you're seeing seems to be just a simple case of trying to use a variable-width font in a monospace-required screen. 

That's it!  Works like a charm now, Steve.  "Thank you, thank you, thank you", as Gomer Pyle would say.

(That problem was starting to drive me bonkers...)

- Dav