Text Blitter with Variable Width fonts

[bhlaab]

I've found some tutorials, but they're either very nonspecific or for very outdated versions of fusion.

Apparently it has something to do with arrays, but I can't find good detailed instructions for how the array should be arranged and how to use the text blitter object to mine data from it. Advice would be appreciated, and an example file would be greatly appreciated.

[bhlaab]

Please help?

[schrodinger]

not sure if this may help or not
as I've not played very much with blitters
not enough to see how they can fail with variable width fonts

but you may check out this very cool widget made by BartekB:
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/93518-Extension-less-Text-Blitter-Widget?highlight=text+blitter+widget

It's quite customizable,
I guess you could tweak font animations to get desired spacing and maybe pull out what you need from this?

Of course, nothing too refined like a perfect kerning in any situation (I guess)

[nim]

It's quite tricky to do this, but I don't think the Text Blitter object has changed a lot over the years so any tutorial you find would probably still be relevant now. Basically use an array to store the widths of the characters and use the Callback function of the Text Blitter to refer to this and draw the next character at the correct X position.

[casleziro]

http://community.clickteam.com/threads/59132-Text-Blitter-Variable-Character-Width

But I recommend ditching the TB and using an active object one instead, since it's much more flexible.

[bhlaab]

Thanks. What I ended up doing was using n_k/podunkian's mfa files to generate and save an array file.

schrodinger> that widget is really cool, but didn't quite work for what I needed the blittered text to do. But I may have a use for it in other spots. Thanks!

[ratty]

Are you just wanting text to populate 1 character at a time at a certain rate?