[osg-users] Hard coded Arial font

I see arial.ttf referred 13 times, most of which are hardcoded in the fonts directory. Most of my development has been on Windows and that font is standard. Recently, I did some stuff on Linux where Arial is not a default font and therefore text looked pretty ugly. It was somewhat of a pain to

Re: [osg-users] Hard coded Arial font

You can set the font. osg::ref_ptrosgText::Font font = osgText::readFontFile('yourfont.ttf'); osg::ref_ptrosgText::Text txt = new osgText::Text; txt-setFont(font.get()); -K On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Thomas Lerman wrote: I see arial.ttf referred 13 times, most of which are hardcoded in the fonts

Re: [osg-users] Hard coded Arial font

Would that not set the font for those created objects and not for the system? In other words, I believe things like StatsHandler HelpHandler would still use the hard-coded fonts. Am I missing something? -- Read this topic online here:

Re: [osg-users] Hard coded Arial font

Yes, you are correct that this wouldn't help with StatsHandler or HelpHandler. For StatsHandler you might be able to get away with deriving a class like this: class MyStatsHandler : public osgViewer::StatsHandler { public: MyStatsHandler() : _font(myfont.ttf) {} }; otherwise you can

Re: [osg-users] Hard coded Arial font

Hi Thomas, The OpenSceneGraph-Data contains the Arial.ttf font so you can just place this on your OSG_FILE_PATH and the OSG with then pick it up. Robert. On 13 December 2011 18:29, Thomas Lerman osgfo...@tevs.eu wrote: I see arial.ttf referred 13 times, most of which are hardcoded in the fonts