[SOLVED] Textbox window location bug when changing fonts

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

I'm using a clear/ dyslexia friendly font in my game. 99% of the time, the windows display correctly, but I have one character (fan) whose window location changes depending on which font is active. If default, it's fine, but if clear/ dyslexia friendly, it's too low/ partially off the screen. It doesn't do this with other windows, and I can't see any difference (apart from top_padding, which I removed and didn't solve the problem). However, "fan" is the only character to use the graphic window_background="gui speechhuge".

Here is the character (compared to one that works):

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define fan = Character("Hardcore Fan", what_style="emmett_what", window_right_padding=80, window_left_padding=40, window_top_padding=30, window_xpos=1500, window_ypos=500, window_xmaximum=660, window_ymaximum=970, window_background="gui speechhuge")
define bm = Character("Crowd", what_style="emmett_what", window_right_padding=40, window_left_padding=40, window_xpos=1000, window_ypos=880, window_xmaximum=600, window_ymaximum=260, window_background="gui speechbottom")

And here is the code for the font:

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init python:
    gui.init(1920, 1080)

    config.ftfont_scale["DejaVuSans.ttf"] = .78
    config.ftfont_vertical_extent_scale["DejaVuSans.ttf"] = 1.08

My game is already released on Steam, so I'm looking to what I can do to fix it. I don't want to remove the clear font option but I don't understand why switching between fonts changes the window location (ypos) in this one case.

Thank you in advance

[timepatches]

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I do know that Open Dyslexic has some weird sizing stuff - it has a TON of headroom that is actually built into the font and could be throwing off your measurements. Have you considered swapping to a different font like Atkinson Hyperlegible to see if it's only Open Dyslexic giving you issues?

[Kinmoku]

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I do know that Open Dyslexic has some weird sizing stuff - it has a TON of headroom that is actually built into the font and could be throwing off your measurements. Have you considered swapping to a different font like Atkinson Hyperlegible to see if it's only Open Dyslexic giving you issues?

Yeah, that's what this block is for:

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init python:
    gui.init(1920, 1080)

    config.ftfont_scale["DejaVuSans.ttf"] = .78
    config.ftfont_vertical_extent_scale["DejaVuSans.ttf"] = 1.08

I had to adjust the scale quite a lot! But it doesn't cause issues with any of the other windows in the game, just this one.

The "fan" character has the largest text box in the game (1000px high) so I think it may be something to do with that. I'm going to try making it smaller and see if it helps.

[Kinmoku]

In case anyone else has this trouble, for some reason it was affected because of a transform applied to the window in the say screen, specifically:

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transform irlbubble_huge:
    xanchor 0.5 yanchor 0.5

I had to change it to:

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transform irlbubble_huge:
    xanchor 0.0 yanchor 0.0

And then manually position it. The height different of the string when switching fonts was shifting it around.