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I was wondering... How about we give the developer teh change to set his own default font? I personally don't like the current one but I don't want to set the default font if there is junk ghosting around in memory. So some small Setter on the AppGameContainer and a new Constructor for Graphics would do the trick.
Tell me what you think about it

Edit:
Also setting the default font on teh container just makes the FPS String to the new font, everything drawn with graphics will ignore it :/

Okay, this is actually really bad. the font always get's a reset after a game loop. So the developer needs to set his font every loop which is totally nonsense imho. Why is there a reset? Why is there NO simple way to say: "I want my own font"?

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Yeah I totally agree - there should be a way to completely bypass the loading of the default font so that it doesn't bog down start-up time, and to reduce the distribution size of the game. 99% of users will not be using the default font in the final release of their games.

Okay, but how do we bypass the loading? We need to force the user to set a font. But that would also break old games using Slick2D (altough the amount of work to fix it is equal to zero ).
How about using the setter of the GameContainer? There already is a setter fpr the defult font but it's never used or better it will never be changed for Graphics.
Also I think we should remove the resetFont() call in the updateAndRender() in the GameContainer class.

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No one against it? Then I will do some changes if I have the time

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