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ok so I've been playing around with TWL and Slick trying to get some text to display on a label. And I've managed that much but I've encountered an oddity where it seems that TWL will not properly grab the size of fonts. For some reason the FPScounter seems to work properly, and can display a border properly (sized etc). but if I try to create a label I have to manually set the box width, it wont automatically check the length of the text. furthermore, when I get the width of the box it always returns 0 for all of the widths, and if I get the font from the label theme, and getEM() it returns 0..

checking the font file shows that the widths/heights on all the characters are correct (and they display properly too). So I'm kind of at a loss as to why this is happening.

Can you upload the font files? Did you use the Theme Editor to generate it?

Regarding widget sizes: getWidth() and getHeight() only return useful values after layout.
You should use getPreferredWidth and getPreferredHeight().

And when you put the label in a widget which correctly handles layout() then the layout method should be invoked when ever the text of the label was changed.

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ok, so I figured that portion out last night. And got everything to work, it was definitely an issue of attempting to get the values before doing the layout.