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=== Description === | === Description === | ||
Creates a new '''CompositeFont''' object. | Creates a new '''CompositeFont''' object. | ||
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CompositeFont.new(definition) | CompositeFont.new(definition) | ||
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=== Example === | === Example === | ||
'''Drawing a black outline''': | '''Drawing a black outline''': | ||
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local str = "My Composite Font text" | local str = "My Composite Font text" | ||
local nf = TTFont.new("fonts/Tahoma.ttf", 32, str, true) --Normal | local nf = TTFont.new("fonts/Tahoma.ttf", 32, str, true) --Normal | ||
Revision as of 14:26, 13 July 2023
Available since: Gideros 2019.1
Class: CompositeFont
Description
Creates a new CompositeFont object. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> CompositeFont.new(definition) </source>
Each layer of the composited font is defined by a table. The following fields are possible:
- font: the font object to use for this layer (mandatory)
- color: the color to use when rendering this layer
- alpha: the alpha value to use with the color
- x: the X offset to apply
- y: the Y offset to apply
- name: a name for this layer (since 2021.9)
Note: TTFont without any character list specification aren't supported in composite fonts.
Parameters
definition: (table) a list of layer definition tables
Example
Drawing a black outline: <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> local str = "My Composite Font text" local nf = TTFont.new("fonts/Tahoma.ttf", 32, str, true) --Normal local of = TTFont.new("fonts/Tahoma.ttf", 32, str, true, 3) --Outlined local cf= CompositeFont.new{ -- *** PLEASE NOTICE THE CURLY BRACES { } INSTEAD OF ( ) *** { font=of, color=0x0 }, -- draw outline in black { font=nf, x=1, y=2 }, -- draw normal text with an offset } local tf = TextField.new(cf, str) tf:setTextColor(0xff0000) tf:setPosition(16, 64) stage:addChild(tf) </source>
