TextWidth and TextHeight functions?

[Giuliano]

Is it possible somehow to either
a)change the default font that Lua uses
b)calculate the print text height and width of a string (I need this for doing accurate clipping)

If not, would it be possible to add in to the next version ?

[flattspott]

from counting the pixels on a zoomed in image
s would be a space

font = {h=7, w=5, s= 3}

[Shine]

Is it possible somehow to either
a)change the default font that Lua uses

No, but it is easy to use your own font, see the tiles handling in the snake game and just use as the index for a tile, the characters of the string.

b)calculate the print text height and width of a string (I need this for doing accurate clipping)

Length: string.len(text) * 8, Height: 8.

[LuMo]

Length: string.len(text) * 8, Height: 8.

note: this works for monospaced fonts only

Is it possible somehow to either
a)change the default font that Lua uses

and you can already access an example on my website (the nick selector, which uses monospaced font [formula as the one of shine above])

greets
Lumo
PS: i already worked a "wordpad" out for a font that is not monospaced (supports, alignment: left, center, right, and auto-wordwrap)
but by now its only written in php.

[Giuliano]

Length: string.len(text) * 8, Height: 8.

note: this works for monospaced fonts only

Is it possible somehow to either
a)change the default font that Lua uses

and you can already access an example on my website (the nick selector, which uses monospaced font [formula as the one of shine above])

greets
Lumo
PS: i already worked a "wordpad" out for a font that is not monospaced (supports, alignment: left, center, right, and auto-wordwrap)
but by now its only written in php.

I currently do use a monospaced bitmap font but drawing a lot of text requires blitting and it will get slow if I do too much, so instead I use print for some basic in-game captions. It would be nice to be able to change those fonts