LoadFromFile fails after too many Text objects

[janos_]

I am trying to create 1000 sf::Text objects. But loadFromFile returns 0 after 508 initialized objects. Why is that the case and is there a way to by pass this to create all 1000 objects? The code example demonstrates this.

Thank you for your time.

#include <iostream>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

class Text
{
private:
    sf::Text text;
    sf::Font font;

    sf::RenderTarget& renderTarget;
public:
    Text(const sf::String& fontPath, sf::RenderTarget& p_renderTarget) : renderTarget(p_renderTarget)
    {
        std::cout << "Font loaded: " << font.loadFromFile(fontPath) << std::endl;
        text.setFont(font);
        text.setString("Hallo Welt!");
        text.setCharacterSize(25);
    }

    void Update() { renderTarget.draw(text); }
};

int main()
{
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(900, 600), "SFML works!");
    std::vector<Text*> texts;
    int textAmount = 1000;
    for (int i = 0; i < textAmount; i++)
    {
        std::cout << "Nr." << i << ": ";
        Text* t = new Text("arial.ttf", window);
        texts.push_back(t);
    }

    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        sf::Event event;
        while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear();
        for (int i = 0; i < textAmount; i++)
        {
            texts[i]->Update();
        }
        window.display();
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < textAmount; i++)
    {
        delete texts[i];
    }
}

[Laurent]

Why are you trying to load 1000 times the same font?

You should definitely not do this. A font consumes a lot of resources, and you most likely run out of GPU memory after 508.

[eXpl0it3r]

Said differently, you can reuse the font object for multiple text objects.

Also if you have a multi-line text, you can also insert \n to get the text on a newline.
That way you can potentially reduce the amount of text objects required.

[janos_]

Why are you trying to load 1000 times the same font?

I am creating a list as a user interface where each list element consists of multiple text objects. That list gets quite large also because I have 4 lists in total (and some other locations were I load fonts). For example 80 list elements each loading 2 fonts creates 160 font objects.

Said differently, you can reuse the font object for multiple text objects.

That will fix the problem. I am just creating to many font objects. I'll try to implement that.

Thank you for your replies.