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Graphics / Re: SFML 1.6 - RenderWindow doesn't write text to screen

« on: October 18, 2013, 12:32:23 pm »

I see, Thanks for your help Nexus. I appreciate this. Chilun

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Graphics / Re: SFML 1.6 - RenderWindow doesn't write text to screen

« on: October 16, 2013, 06:32:06 pm »

Hi;

I the tutorial for version 1.6 is very basic for writing text to the screen so I had to adapt my version with the 2.1 tutorial. I followed the example at the bottom of the following page: http://sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/graphics-fonts.php. I've located many different examples, most of them don't have draw calls within loops, just set font, size, colour and feed this into a renderwindow variable, which should at least write something to the screen (based on code I've found online).

Chilun

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Graphics / SFML 1.6 - RenderWindow doesn't write text to screen

« on: October 16, 2013, 11:02:28 am »

Hi all;

I'm trying to write some text in a pong game I'm trying to work through. Here is the code (does compile fine, using SFML 1.6 - please don't kill me, this is what i have to work with atm). For some unknown reason to me, I cannot see any text on the window when trying to feed the text to the renderwindow function. Can anyone advise on why this is the case and how I can remedy this problem?

Thank you
Chilun

// RESET BALL TO MIDDLE OF SCREEN AND RESET TIMER TO 0
GetSprite().SetPosition(Game::SCREEN_WIDTH/2, Game::SCREEN_HEIGHT/2);
_angle = (float)sf::Randomizer::Random(0,360);
_velocity = 220.0f;
_elapsedTimeSinceStart = 0.0f;

// ------------------------------------- DRAW TEXT TO SCREEN

// declare and load font file (.ttf)
sf::Font font;
font.LoadFromFile("PLANE.ttf", 100);

// create text object
sf::String text("YOU LOSE", font, 100);

// set colour
text.SetColor(sf::Color::Yellow);

text.SetSize(10.f);
text.SetPosition(0, 10);

// draw to screen
sf::RenderWindow window;
window.Draw(text);
                               
//update window
window.Display();

// ---------------------------------------------------------