Draw all spaces in a font

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:09 pm

Hello,

Can somebody tell me how to draw all spaces in an irrlicht font, because after using

setInvisibleCharacters(L"")

the spaces are still hidden...

Thanks
Hilnius

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:44 am

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setInvisibleCharacters(L" ")

I dont think you put the space...

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:43 pm

i want to show all spaces, not to hide them...

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:01 pm

hilnius,

what do you call "spaces" ?

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:30 pm

" " is a space.. but in most fonts multiple spaces are hidden... i just want to show all spaces

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:46 pm

I suppose the only way right now would be to replace the space-char in your font-texture with another bitmap.

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:12 pm

it's not very clean... if you have a better solution for me...

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:22 pm

hilnius wrote:it's not very clean... if you have a better solution for me...

maybe just replace all spaces with some visible character like underline ("_") ?

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:06 pm

if you were creating a game, in spite of spaces in the title would you put underscores "_" ?

slavik262 · Post by **slavik262** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:58 pm

I'm confused on what you're trying to do in the first place. Does Irrlicht only place one space between words, regardless of how many spaces are in the string?

hilnius · Post by **hilnius** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:29 pm

yes
e.g: if you write

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"My       Game"

, Irrlicht writes

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"My Game"

by default

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:04 pm

Just checked, Irrlicht writes all spaces:

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1) "Transparent Control:" // 1 space here
2) "Transparent      Control:" // 6 spaces here

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:42 pm

Which font are you using? Irrlicht doesn't really care about spaces different from other characters usually. Do you maybe use some custom font rendering?

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:53 am

He might be confusing irrlicht with html...they are similar, you know

Luben · Post by **Luben** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:36 am

grumpymonkey wrote:He might be confusing irrlicht with html...they are similar, you know

i'n not sure, was that funny or helpful, or maybe neither? why make such a useless post?