[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi, we now tested our game (Blockoban) on iOS devices, and it seems that there is still a problem with texts.

We use a custom font (spathasans.ttf) for all texts in our game. Texts are sometimes drawn above sprites, sometimes directly above the background image.

In some cases, the texts work, in some they don’t, and it doesn’t seem to be influenced by what’s underneath them.

For example, here’s a text that is NOT shown on iOS but it IS on Android:

Text {
            id: text1
            color: "white"
            font.family: window.fontName
            font.pixelSize: hud.height / 3
        }

This one should be shown directly above the background image.

Another text, that DOES appear on iOS AND Android, is this one:

    Text {
        z: 1000
        id: levelT
        text: speechBubble.text[textState]
        x: 30
        y: 10

        font.pixelSize: 17
        font.family: window.fontName
    }

 

You can see both of them in this image, the first one should appear where the red rectangle is, the second one is visible in the speech bubble:

Screenshot

Could it be because the first one has a size that’s not an integer? This would be my only guess of what is different.

(We built the game yesterday so it should use Felgo 1.3)

Cheers, Chrisu

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi Chrisu,

could you try your game with a fixed integer font pixelSize first? My first guess would be a hardcoded version – if that works please use Math.round(). If it isnt shown still, please send us an email with the font and the qml file containing the text element with the text content that isnt shown and we’ll have  a look at it.

Cheers, Chris

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hey Chris,

my first try would have been Math.round(), but it didn’t help, trying a fixed size now.

But there seems to be a new problem, this time on Android, because multi-lined text is now cut off after one line, this is what the first level now looks like on Android:

Screenshot

 

(This is only since the newest version 1.3, it looks fine when I start it on desktop from QtCreator)

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hi Chrisu,

I guess we found the problem, it’s related with the calculation of correct line heights on multi-line texts with certain fonts (Spatha is unfortunately one of them). I’ll come back to you later today…

Cheers,

Alex

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hey, I think we got it, both on Android and iOS, the Spatha font is missing some font metric settings that made it really hard to calculate the right positions.

Please be so kind and give your game another build on our Build Server, looking forward to your feedback! 🙂

Cheers,

Alex

[ChristianFelgo Team]

It’s working!
Thank you very much for the fix 🙂
Now Blockoban will soon be available on iOS!

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Can’t wait for the announcement! 😉

[Heini]

Hi,

i am facing a similar problem with a custom font (pintip.ttf) on Android. Some pixel lines on the top of the font are not getting drawed, so that a “T” looks like a “I”.

 

Greetings

Heini

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hi Heini,

is pintip.ttf a free (downloadable) font so that we can download it and debug it locally in our team?

Thanks,

Alex

[Heini]

Hi Alex,

i will send you the font tomorrow by email.

 

Greetings

Heini