Custom Letters and Punctuation Not Working

For some reason when I try to add a forward slash or any other letters or punctuation, I get a box instead. Numbers are working fine and the fnt file has a forward slash graphic for it. Not sure what part of my code to include to help fix the problem but this is the function I'm working on.

function drawDate(dc) {
var nowinfo = Greg.info(Time.now(), Time.FORMAT_SHORT);
var homeDay = nowinfo.day;
var homeMonth = nowinfo.month;

dc.setColor(Graphics.COLOR_ORANGE, Graphics.COLOR_TRANSPARENT);
dc.drawText(dc.getWidth()/2 + 10, 30, digitalSmall, Lang.format("$1$",[homeDay.format("%02d")]), Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_LEFT);
dc.drawText(dc.getWidth()/2 - 10, 30, digitalSmall, Lang.format("$1$",[homeMonth.format("%02d")]), Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_RIGHT);

//This is where I'm getting a box
dc.drawText(dc.getWidth()/2, 30, digitalSmall, "/", Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);

//This is for my font in fonts.xml

Thanks!

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

Your filter is saying the only characters that will be included in your app are 0 through 9. Expand your filters to include the other characters you want to use.

You get the boxes because you are using characters that aren't in the font.

With that filter, if you tried to display 12:34, the colon would show as a box.

but with filter="0123456789:", you'd see the colon (if it was included when the font was built with bmfont.)

0 Caucasian_Clamm over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Awesome! Thank you so much!

0 5693709 over 4 years ago in reply to Caucasian_Clamm

I'm curious as to why you'd want to filter the font in the first place, is there some advantage to doing so?

0 Caucasian_Clamm over 4 years ago in reply to 5693709

No idea, I saw it in a tutorial and other code and had no clue what it meant.

0 PlayItLoud over 4 years ago in reply to Caucasian_Clamm

Will save some memory

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to 5693709

Let's say you use bmfont to build a fount with 0-9 and A-Z, but for the current app, you only need 0-9 and A-C. And it's a larger font. You can save a bunch of memory in your app by using "0123456789ABC" as a filter.