[Solved] What is the best way to get BlzFrameSetFont to work?

[Planetary]

What is the best way to get custom fonts to work for frames outside of overriding the default font (I'd like to mix and match multiple font faces)? I have not had any luck. I've tried a half dozen methods of using simple frames and frames that have text children and it either crashes the game or makes the text disappear. I do understand there is an absurd limitation in the actual "TEXT" frametypes not supporting this function (ugh!).

Anyone have snippets that work? Can this only be done via FDF and TOC files?

 

[Planetary]

Finally figured out the issue. You need a line break at the end of a .toc file to get BlzLoadTOCFile() to work (UI: toc-Files)

fdf:

war3mapImported\SimpleFrameString.fdf

toc:

Frame "SIMPLEFRAME" "SimpleFrameString" {
    Width 0.0001,
    Height 0.0001,
    String "SimpleFrameStringValue" {
        Anchor TOPLEFT, 0, 0,
        Font "war3mapImported\fonts-consolas.ttf", 0.01,
    }
}

 

[Zwiebelchen]

You can just copy and past the original "Text" frame with different fonts inside a custom fdf though.

A simpleframe is much better in most use-cases though. That is unless you really need it to be a nonsimple frame (for example to allow layering ir on top of other nonsimple frames).

 

[Planetary]

You can just copy and past the original "Text" frame with different fonts inside a custom fdf though.

A simpleframe is much better in most use-cases though. That is unless you really need it to be a nonsimple frame (for example to allow layering ir on top of other nonsimple frames).

I ended up going this route after digging through the .fdf source so I can use the 'INHERITS' property everywhere else.

Frame "TEXT" "FrameBaseText" {
    FrameFont "war3mapImported\fonts-consolas.ttf", 0.008, "",
    FontJustificationH JUSTIFYLEFT,
    FontJustificationV JUSTIFYTOP,
    FontColor 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0,
}