BMFont for Gideros Studio

The classes BMFont, BMTextField, BMTextWrap can be used to load and display Angelcode format font (.fnt) with Gideros Studio.

Features

• Write text using Angelcode format font
• Kerning
• Text wrapping with specified width
• Alignment

Usage

-- load font
local font = BMFont.new("font.txt", "font.png")

-- create text
local text = BMTextField.new(font, "Hello Gideros!")

-- add to stage
stage:addChild(text)

-- you can also change the text
text:setText("Hello Giderans!")

-- create wrapped text
local textWrap = BTMTextWrap.new(font, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", 100, "justify")

-- add to stage
stage:addChild(textWrap)

Current Limitation

• Cannot use more than one font texture page
• Padding information is ignored
• Non-numeric value is ignored like font name or font texture path

Editors

These visual editors can be used to generate BMFonts:

• http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ (free, windows)
• http://www.bmglyph.com/ (commercial, mac os x)
• http://glyphdesigner.71squared.com/ (commercial, mac os x)
• http://www.n4te.com/hiero/hiero.jnlp (free, java, multiplatform)
• http://slick.cokeandcode.com/demos/hiero.jnlp (free, java, multiplatform)