SilverlightShow: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering Comments

Re: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

MisterGoodcat — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:48:04 GMT

Hi Mihail. I've just tried to do exactly what you're trying to do, using my sample from part 12 as a start (which demonstrates mixing Silverlight and XNA on Mango). I have no problem with this:

content = (Application.Current as App).Content;
font = content.Load("SpriteFont1");

Make sure that your sprite font is correctly set up in the "Content" project, i.e. both the importer and processor are set to "Sprite Font Description", and that the build action is set to "Compile". Also make sure that you're using the correct asset name that is configured in the Content project.

Re: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

BarboiMihail — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:01:51 GMT

Say ... how are you ?

I got a little stupid easy problem (it's seams this ones are the hardest) :

I've got a "Windows Phone Silverlight AND XNA application" built with with vs2010 pro

I'm trying to draw text ... and the only place I got sucked is when I'm trying to load content : it tells me "Unable to find file : contet\spritefont1" and BOOM ...

I've tried different paths with no result ..

The base class is : public partial class GamePage : PhoneApplicationPage

and because of that there's no LoadContent ... as for a public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game

so what can I do to load content ?

SharedGraphicsDeviceManager.Current.GraphicsDevice.SetSharingMode(true);

spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(SharedGraphicsDeviceManager.Current.GraphicsDevice);

ContentManager cmm = (Application.Current as App).Content;

SpriteFont font1;

....

cmm.RootDirectory = "Content";
font1 = cmm.Load("SpriteFont1");

My only problem is to loadcontent is this context : public partial class GamePage : PhoneApplicationPage

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

MisterGoodcat — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:14:37 GMT

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have passed on the information to the Silverlight Show team and I'm sure the problem will be fixed soon. Please pardon the inconvenience.

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

avrashow — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:44:04 GMT

Link to PART 1 - Fundamentals seems broken. From several of your pages.

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

Peter Kuhn — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:33:44 GMT

Thank you, Gustav. Unfortunately I have no statistics about the use of bitmap fonts in comparison to normal sprite fonts in games.

Btw. I recently found a nice freeware tool to create bitmap fonts. I have only done a few tests, but it produces good results (except for some spacing issues when you use certain effects): http://www.nubik.com/SpriteFont/

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

Gustav — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:26:50 GMT

Really nice and useful article. Thank you!

I have only a question, do you know if the BitmapFont is widely used by XNA developers or do they sticky with sprite fonts?

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

Peter Kuhn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:27:19 GMT

Thank you :)

RE: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering

iiordanov — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:53:46 GMT

Awesome article Peter!!!

Thanks for sharing it with us.