Testing the new things in 0.9.0

[Santos]

Here's an example using some new Font methods:

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function love.load()
	Font = love.graphics.setNewFont(50)

	colors = {
		height = {230, 159, 0},
		ascent = {0, 158, 115},
		descent = {213, 94, 0},
		baseline = {86, 180, 223},
	}
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.height)
	love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 200*0, 0, 200, Font:getHeight())
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.ascent)
	love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 200*1, Font:getBaseline()-Font:getAscent(), 200, Font:getAscent())
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.descent)
	love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 200*2, Font:getBaseline(), 200, -Font:getDescent())
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.baseline)
	love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 200*3, 0, 200, Font:getBaseline())

	love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
	love.graphics.printf('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 0, 0, 800, 'center')

	love.graphics.setColor(colors.height)
	love.graphics.print('\n\nFont:getHeight() : '..Font:getHeight(), 0, 0)
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.ascent)
	love.graphics.print('\n\n\nFont:getAscent() : '..Font:getAscent(), 0, 0)
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.descent)
	love.graphics.print('\n\n\n\nFont:getDescent() : '..Font:getDescent(), 0, 0)
	love.graphics.setColor(colors.baseline)
	love.graphics.print('\n\n\n\n\nFont:getBaseline() : '..Font:getBaseline(), 0, 0)
	love.graphics.setColor(200, 200, 200)
	love.graphics.print('\n\n\n\n\n\nFont:hasGlyph("Ö") : '..tostring(Font:hasGlyph('Ö')), 0, 0)
	love.graphics.print('\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFont:hasGlyph("の") : '..tostring(Font:hasGlyph('の')), 0, 0)
end

From Wikipedia:



This displays some renderer info:

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function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('name'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('name'), 20, 20)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('version'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('version'), 20, 40)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('vendor'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('vendor'), 20, 60)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('device'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('device'), 20, 80)
end

I'm wondering, what could this information be used for?

[raidho36]

Each glyph character in a string you print has 4 vertices that form a bounding box around the glyph.

So text is rendered per glyph as dual-tri quadrilateral. That answers my question, thanks.

[slime]

This displays some renderer info:

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function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('name'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('name'), 20, 20)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('version'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('version'), 20, 40)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('vendor'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('vendor'), 20, 60)
	love.graphics.print("love.graphics.getRendererInfo('device'): "..love.graphics.getRendererInfo('device'), 20, 80)
end

I'm wondering, what could this information be used for?

It's mostly for debugging, it can really help solve graphics issues if a game outputs that info to a log or error screen so users having the issues can show the output to the game's creator. For example maybe a game fails to load on some systems, or loads fine but seems to be broken sometimes, and it turns out it only happens on ATI cards of a certain generation with an old driver in Windows (true story.)

There's also a possibility of some of the functions being used to display nicer "your computer sucks, upgrade it" messages to users.

[Lafolie]

Is there a function to retrieve the X-Height of a typeface? Having studied typography I've been eagerly awaiting these features.

Edit: Following a short discussion on IRC (which someone took place, despite the intolerable amount of crap being spewed about the place), I found that the following meta is available in 0.9.0, I'll leave the diagram here for reference.

[slime]

You'll only be able to get some of that via GlyphData (most of the internal GlyphData and Rasterizer object methods have been exposed to Lua in 0.9.0.)

[spectralcanine]

Sorry for the lack of research on my part, but can we upload any uniforms and attributes, and use any varyings we want in shaders? Or is it the same SFML deal where you only support the old GLSL 100 predefined variables?

[Jasoco]

Here's an example using some new Font methods:

font_methods.png

So are Ascent and Baseline always going to be the same value? Is there a situation where they'd be different?

[Santos]

I was wondering that too, and indeed they can be different depending on the font, here's a test with Crafty Girls:

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Here's an example which plays a tone when the window is visible, and stops it when it's not.

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function love.load()
	tonesounddata = love.sound.newSoundData(44100,44100,16,1)
	for i=0, 44100 do tonesounddata:setSample(i, math.sin(440*(2*math.pi/44100)*i)*0.2)	end
	tone = love.audio.newSource(tonesounddata)
	tone:setLooping(true)

	pingsounddata = love.sound.newSoundData(44100,44100,16,1)
	for i=0, 44100 do pingsounddata:setSample(i, math.sin(440*2*(2*math.pi/44100)*i)*0.3*(-(i - 44100) / 44100)) end
	ping = love.audio.newSource(pingsounddata)

	tone:play()
	ping:play()
end

function love.visible(visible)
	ping:stop()
	ping:play()
end

function love.update()
	-- Source:isPlaying is new.
	if love.window.isVisible() and not tone:isPlaying() then
		tone:play()
	elseif not love.window.isVisible() and tone:isPlaying() then
		tone:stop()
	end
end

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The "ping" which plays when it first starts is also supposed to play when the window gains and loses visibility, but this doesn't happen, any ideas?

[slime]

The "ping" which plays when it first starts is also supposed to play when the window gains and loses visibility, but this doesn't happen, any ideas?

It works for me. Does the entire love.visible callback not trigger, or does the sound just not play properly? What OS?

[Santos]

It seems like the callback doesn't trigger, on Windows XP.

I tested something simpler too:

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function love.load()
	love.filesystem.write('This gets created', '')
end

function love.visible()
	love.filesystem.write('But this does not', '')
end