Calculation of text scaled down to fit inside a rectangle (postrender)

[Slastraf]

I want to make a password pad to put in some numbers.

The attached picture is what it looks now, at a resolution of 1080 p. (for 1920 p the green text fits in properly)

 

 

But as you can see the text is not scaled with the window, so how do I make it right?

I can get the top left and bottom right of the screen as x,y vectors, but how do i calculate that the text always is inside of it ?

[macklebee]

This post gives an example way to do it: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/13485-font-sizes/#entry94658

 

Another way would be to draw the text to the display's surface/face: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10311-drawing-dynamic-material-on-models-and-similar/#entry76089

[Slastraf]

I have decided to scale the font in percentage compared to the default size where the numbers are lining up.

it looks like this now : (it is the fastes way i could think of so its not optimized)

 

local windowres=Window:GetCurrent():GetWidth()

local optimFontSize= 65

local difference=0

if windowres~=1920 then --then it calculates optimal font resolution

System:Print(tostring("Calculating font optimized for Screen Resolution : "..windowres))

 

if windowres < 1920 then

difference = 1920-windowres

else

difference = windowres -1920

end

 

if difference~=0 then

optimFontSize = (100*difference)/1920

System:Print(tostring("Font is being Scaled (in %) : "..optimFontSize))

 

--optimFontSize is the percentage to add or decrease the font size

 

end

end

[Slastraf]

When I got back to it i noticed this " calculation " is pure nosense, ha

Am I bad in math.

[thehankinator]

I've been thinking about this for my UI library. It's an awkward problem that I've not found a perfect solution for but this might work for your use case.The following function will determine a font height so that it will fit in a box defined by w and h. It will start with the font at max size, if the text goes beyond the defined width, it will reduce the font size to fit.

 

It loads a font every time you call it so I would call it only when text changes.

 

function FontFit(fontpath, text, w, h)
local font = Font:Load(fontpath, h)

textwidth = font:GetTextWidth(text)
font:Release()
if textwidth > w then
 return h * (w / textwidth)
else
 return h
end
end

 

An example of loading a font that will fit some_text that will fit in an area of 100x30

local FontHeight = FontFit("Fonts/arial.ttf", some_text, 100, 30)
local font = Font:Load("Fonts/arial.ttf", FontHeight)

Edited May 23, 2016 by thehankinator