Comments on: EasyGlyph – Another iPhone Font System

By: pixelkind

pixelkind — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:10:07 +0000

Hej, thanks for this great tool.
Needed to include some special characters (german umlaut) and extended the String in the Visual Studio Project. Maybe editing this String in the Frontend would be nice ?
thanks again, you saved me a lot of headaches!

By: bubzy

bubzy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:06:25 +0000

Ok, so im as dumb as a rock.
i cannot get this included in my project, has anyone got a sample project i can peruse to check my implementation of this code. ive put the header and .m files into the classes folder and the .c and .png files into the resources folder. ive #import(ed) “EasyGlyph.h” but every time i take a stab at what to do im coming up with errors, surely im missing something obvious CURSE YOU OBJECTIVE C!!!

thanks (intermediate c# developer)

By: Alexei

Alexei — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:38:25 +0000

Your best bet is to convert the font to TTF using one of the tools out there for doing this.

By: Sam Nova

Sam Nova — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:46:25 +0000

I ran into a problem today, as we need to use a OpenType font for our project and for some reason it does not show up in the font dialog. Font works fine under other applications (such as Word). I was wondering if there are any possibilities to use these fonts with the tool?

By: Xartec

Xartec — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:47:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! Works like a charm. Colors, borders, shadows etc can easily be added to the PNG afterwards using PhotoShop or similar.

By: Rajneesh

Rajneesh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:27:31 +0000

Awsome tool…..

By: Mr.Gando

Mr.Gando — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:05:33 +0000

Hey! , thanks for your code, just one observation, in the example above, you say :

textTexture = [[[Texture2D alloc] initWithImage:[myFont writeTextToTexture:@"Hello World!"]] retain];

Just wanted to point that for most people, can skip the retain part, I am allocating and dealloc a lot of strings with your code, and the retain thing without autorelease pool caused a lot of memory overhead, just wanted to point that out

Thanks again.

By: Alexei

Alexei — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:21 +0000

Thanks man. I’ll make that change and re-release. Got some general updates to make to the ripper too.

By: Mariano Guadagnini

Mariano Guadagnini — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:55:00 +0000

Hi, Great work man, this is just what I needed. I had, however, some glitches with memory management, of the ObjC classes you provide.
At least on SDK 3, an exception is thrown randomly. I traced it:

On EasyGlyph.m file, line 51 and 56, changed:

EasyGlyphChar *cf = [[characterDict objectForKey:@"m"] autorelease];

EasyGlyphChar *cf = [[characterDict objectForKey:ch] autorelease];

for

EasyGlyphChar *cf = [[characterDict objectForKey:@"m"] retain];

EasyGlyphChar *cf = [[characterDict objectForKey:ch] retain];

As the autorelease pool was trying to release it twice.

Thanks for your work,

By: Michael Kaye

Michael Kaye — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:54:30 +0000

I would love to use this but every time I launch EasyGlyph it just crashes with the following message – “This application failed to initialise….”

Windows XP running Parellels. Shame.