Reusing a loaded font

[spannerman]

I think its something quite simple, but I cant see it.

Say I have a true type font called myCoolFont.ttf. This font is described, along with its size, in a font xml file. So I'd load the font like this:

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CEGUI::FontManager::getSingleton().createFont("myCoolFont.font");

I have two StaticText boxes. Both use myCoolFont.ttf.
I want one staticText to have a font size of 10, and the other a size of 15.

How do I do that without loading the same font twice?

I know you can dynamically change the size of a font like so:

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Font *f = CEGUI::FontManager::getSingleton().getFont("FontName");
f->setProperty ("PointSize", 12);

But that will change that font instance, and everywhere it is used. Is it possible to clone a font?

[Rackle]

Words are not coming easily tonight so hopefully the following can be understood in english; I doubt my french explanation would be well received...

What you are asking for does not seem possible.

The font class converts a font into a texture via FreeTypeFont::rasterize(). Each "character" from the font is converted into an image representation of a certain size.

A glyph can only be present once within that texture. When drawing text with Font::drawTextLine() there is a glyph = getGlyphData(text[c]); to retrieve the glyph for a character. That code would need some serious rewrite to support something like glyph = getGlyphData(text[c], pointSize);

This also prevents a glyph to be present in multiple formats: normal, bold, italic. These would require multiple .ttf files.

When simply changing the font size a function to copy the texture from an existing font to a new one would be useful to avoid reloading from disk.

[Ident]

Dynamic font size changing should be solved in 0.8 as far as I see it : https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issue ... ing-a-font