(solved) Some noob questions

[Tsun]

If there's a more proper place to ask this kind of beginner questions, then I'm sorry and please redirect me to a more appropriate place. ´v`;

Question 1; how can I use custom fonts in my applications? I want to use graphic images for each individual character, will I have to make some kind of active object system by myself? (I can make it but would be such a huge work for my needs)

Question 2; how can I zoom the entire application without using zoomed in graphics? For example so that 1 pixel turns into 4 pixels etc. And if possible I'd like to put an option to toggle it. (like Cave Story, if anyone has played)

Question 3; is there a way to use individual fastloops for objects that are just copied/created around? I want to use fastloops for object physics, but it breaks if there's multiple numbers of the same object.

Question 4; is there a guide somewhere that explains (in detail) all the functions in this panel:
?
I understand most of it but the "Left$" and "Val" column buttons are pretty strange to me.

[LB]

0. This is the correct forum.
1. If you have MMF2 Developer, you can use the excellent Character Image Object. Otherwise, use the Text Blitter (it's slower if you have a lot of them)
2. In the application properties, second tab, you can tick the box that says "Resize Display to Fill Window Size". You can also make it so you can't drag to resize the window and instad use the window control object to manually resize the window to whatever size you choose. This doesn't always work out though, because of the window borders that Windows adds (they count for this size), but there's a way to get around that.
3. You can use the ForEach object to loop events for each an every object, and on that event store the object's fixed value somewhere, then run your fastloop. On your fastloop you can have the condition "Fixed Value of My Object = Stored Fixed Value", make sure not to use the "Compare Two General Values" from the Special object, this won;t select your object correctly.
4. The MMF2 help is a pretty good guide. Or, this post does well too:
Left$() - lets you get the left # characters from a string.
Mid$() - lets you get # characters from a string, starting at character X.
Right$() - similar to Left$(), lest you get the right # characters from a string.
Len() - tells you the length of a string.
Val() - if your string is a number, this converts it to an actual number value.
Str$() - similar to Val(), this lets you convert any number value to a string in Decimal format (base 10)
Hex$() - Lets you convert a number to Hexadecimal (base 16)
Bin$() - Lets you convert a number to Binary (base 2)

[Dynasoft]

1: Text Blitter or Character Image objects, both are extensions.

3: Start one fast loop from inside another.

4: The help will list them, but here goes:
Left$/Mid$/Right$: Chop a string into pieces
Len: Length of a string
Val: Convert string to number
Str$: Convert number to string (decimal representation)
Hex$: Convert number to string (hexadecimal representation)
Bin$: Convert number to string (binary representation)

EDIT: LB wins

[Tsun]

Alright thanks a ton guys!
I'm not very familiar with non-bundled extensions but I guess it's about time to start trying them out. I'm a little stubborn and want to use as little extensions as possible lol.
Might have more trouble with the fastloop solution but I'll have to try it out first.

The window resize thing is easy to go around so no problem.

Works exactly like I wanted, except now you can't really go fullscreen, but that's a worthy tradeoff. :> I'll expand it to work back and forth and with more zoom levels.