Custom Fonts

How do Blitz fonts work? I assume they use the fonts that are already installed within Windows but what happens if I use a font that does not come with Windows by default, what would happen on other computers? Would the program crash or would blitz simply default to another font?

you can load fonts by

LoadFont("Gfx\Font1.fnt")

but remember, not to use the filename, but the name of the font!

Using a simple test it seems to load a default font, even if the font name is not found. Note that it is not blitz's default text font as you can see by commenting out the font load/set lines.

Stevie

Graphics 640,480,16,1

MyFont= LoadFont( "ThisFontDoesNotExist" )
SetFont MyFont

SetBuffer BackBuffer()

Text 0,10,MyFont
Text 0,20,"This is just a test"

Flip

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