Font/TTFont and setTextColor()

FlimFlamboyant

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or just undocumented and unexpected behavior. It seems that setTextColor() is only effective on TextFields using fonts derived from TTFont, but not Font. I can get around it by manipulating the color with setColorTransform(), though, which actually makes setTextColor() seem rather redundant.

SinisterSoft

Works here.

self.titles[loop].shadow=TextField.new(fontLarge,self.titles[loop].text)
self.titles[loop].shadow:setTextColor(0x000000)
self.titles[loop].main=TextField.new(fontLarge,self.titles[loop].text)
self.titles[loop].main:setTextColor(self.titles[loop].colour)
self.titles[loop].main:setPosition(-5,-5)
self.titles[loop].shadow:addChild(self.titles[loop].main)
self:addChild(self.titles[loop].shadow)

ar2rsawseen

@FlimFlamboyant the color settings most probably won't work if you are not using vector fonts, like TrueType fonts
If you are using for example, Bitmap font, basically each letter as an image, then yes it probably won't work, but as you said the colors can be transformed

OZApps

@FlimFlamboyant, for bitmapped fonts, try to use the setColorTransform to tint the text color.

SinisterSoft

@ar2rsawseen - `i'm using bitmapped pre-created fonts and it works here.

FlimFlamboyant

Yep, I did indeed use setColorTransform instead. I just thought I'd point it out, due to the inconsistency of it. I can understand the why from the back-end point of view, but it just seems a little weird from the other end.

simwhi

Hi,

I came across this issue today. setTextColour worked for me after I recreated the font using the Gideros font creator. The font was previous created using a different tool.

It seemed to display text fine but the text colour remained white.

I hope this helps someone.

Simon