[LazFreeType] Resource Font

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Thanks for testing. 

excuse me, but one question is left: can it work with BGRATextFX?

Ok. I've updated BGRABitmap on subversion, now in TBGRAFreeTypeDrawer, you have a CreateTextEffect function.

but even if i set font collection, how to select one font between the other ones?
or the font from resource stream still can be used somehow?

Ok. Here is a patch to add a font from a stream into a font collection.

Can you give it a try ?

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@ask:

Ok now I got some range check errors, when running LazUtils with range check option.

It appears that variable types are not consistent with loading instruction from the frame buffer.

[Ask]

I tested it with some files.

Can you post your test program?

Ok. Here is a patch to add a font from a stream into a font collection.

Hm. Note that:
1) Init procedure is redundant, since class members are auto-zeroed on construction.
2) TFreeTypeFontCollection.AddStream has 90% common code with AddFile.

I could fix both problems myself, but I need a test

very strange commit.... the patch uploaded here does not contain 'A Count'

Sorry about that.

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Here is test program for AddStream.

Note that you need to copy in timesi.ttf (Times New Roman Italic) and arial.ttf (Arial Regular).

[Vladimyr]

Finally, I got everything working.

Correct approach was to create a default font collection,
add several fonts into it from resource stream, set this
collection as default one, and select each font via

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xxx.FontNamereferring to its internal name (not file name nor resource name).

Also, too many ways to draw text make things a bit complicated
for beginners. These ones are:

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BGRABitmap.TextOut (...)
BGRAFreeTypeDrawer.DrawText (...)
BGRAVectorizedFontRenderer.TextOut (...)
BGRATextEffect.Draw (...)
Now I use the 4th variant, but it could be interesting to learn
the difference. What I discovered for now:
1) can draw shadow, can't use stream font;
2) can't draw shadow, can use stream font;
3) can draw shadow, can't use stream font;
4) can draw shadow, can use stream font.

Hope it will be useful to know that for somebody.
Thank you again for your inestimable work! 

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Hello, you're right, it's too complicated.

I've simplified by adding access to effects from the font renderer.

Now it's very simple. Here is a tutorial about it :
http://wiki.freepascal.org/BGRABitmap_tutorial_Font_rendering

I've also added explanations in BGRAText, BGRATextFX, BGRAVectorize and BGRAFreeType units.