Loading fonts

How do I load a font like Arial or something into my blitzmax program? It's alot more complicated that Blitz3D or BlitzPlus.

No its not.

LoadImageFont()
SetImageFont()

Be warned that DrawText is pretty slow though, you may want to think about using Bitmap fonts instead...

I tried that and both Bitmap fonts and regular *.ttf and *.fon kind of fonts dont write correctly at all

You need a relative or absolute path to the font you are loading.

Graphics 320,240, 0

DrawText "Internal Default", 50,40

SetImageFont LoadImageFont( "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf", 50)
DrawText "Arial 50", 50,60

SetImageFont LoadImageFont( "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\impact.ttf", 50)
DrawText "Impact 50", 50,120

Flip
WaitKey

That little snippet should look like this on windows


If it doesnt, there could be some graphics/driver problem...