Changing Fonts Using AMCAF

[DrkStarr]

Hello,
I've loaded AMCAF on AMOS. The test programs work fine.

But I'm trying to change the TEXT Font for the program.
This is my code:

BANKFONT=101
Dload "computer-8x8.font",BANKFONT
Make Bank Font BANKFONT
Bank Name BANKFONT,"BankFont"
Change Bank Font BANKFONT

If I try this there's no change. And if I change the last line to this:

Change Font "BankFont"

It says that it couldn't open the font.

Any ideas?

[Samurai_Crow]

AMCAF fonts are from Amiga bitmap fonts. AMOS 8×8 fonts are a different format. Which are you importing from?

[DrkStarr]

I'm pretty sure it's an AMOS font I'm trying to use. It can be edited in AMOS's Font Editor Program.

[Samurai_Crow]

Ok. That's your problem. There are Amiga bitmap font editors on the Aminet that'll serve your purpose. Otherwise you'll have to use the ordinary AmosPro text rendering.

[DrkStarr]

So I'm playing around with Get Disk Fonts and Set Font, and I found a font on the computer that I can use. It's font 50.

My question is, when AMOS does Get Disk Fonts, is that different for each computer? So your Font 50 might be different than my Font 50?

[Samurai_Crow]

50 is the size of the font. The directory it is stored in has the name of the font.

[DrkStarr]

This is what I'm doing:

Get Disk Fonts
Set Font 50

I don't think that's setting the font size to 50. My question is will this generate the same type of font for all machines? I doubt it. So is there an easy way to lock it in?

[adrazar]

Originally Posted by DrkStarr

So is there an easy way to lock it in?

You could load the font with Set Font, store it in an unused memory bank using Make Bank Font, and then save it as a .abk file (using Save). After this can you load the font by loading the .abk file (using Load) and then apply it with Change Bank Font.

[DrkStarr]

Thanks adrazar,

I was able to do this:

Get Disk Fonts
Set Font 50

Make Bank Font 10
Save "comp-font.abk",10

The in my main program I load it back like this:

Screen Open 0,320,200,16,Lowres
Flash Off : Curs Off
Screen 0 : Cls 0 : Ink 2,0

Load "comp-font.abk",10
Change Bank Font 10

Text 100,100,"Star Trade"

I hope 10 is a good memory bank. In my game I'm just using some Bobs and Samples.

- Thanks for all the help