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import org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.BasicGame;
import org.newdawn.slick.Font;
import org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.Graphics;
import org.newdawn.slick.SlickException;
import org.newdawn.slick.TrueTypeFont;

public class FontTestGame extends BasicGame {
   private static Font font;

   private FontTestGame() throws SlickException {
      super("Font Tester");
   }
   
   public static void main(String[] args) throws SlickException {
      FontTestGame game = new FontTestGame();
      AppGameContainer container = new AppGameContainer(game, 640, 480, false);
      container.setSmoothDeltas(true);
         container.setVSync(true);
         container.setTargetFrameRate(60);
      container.start();
   }

   @Override
    public void init(GameContainer arg0) throws SlickException {
      font = new TrueTypeFont(new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.ITALIC, 26), true);
    }
   
   @Override
    public void update(GameContainer arg0, int arg1) throws SlickException {
    }
   
   public void render(GameContainer container, Graphics graphics) throws SlickException {
      graphics.setFont(font);
       graphics.drawString("Capital P, V and Y seem to suffer the most from this!", 30, 30);
    }
}

import org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.BasicGame;
import org.newdawn.slick.Color;
import org.newdawn.slick.Font;
import org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.Graphics;
import org.newdawn.slick.SlickException;
import org.newdawn.slick.UnicodeFont;

public class FontTestGame extends BasicGame {
   private static Font font;

   private FontTestGame() throws SlickException {
      super("Font Tester");
   }
   
   public static void main(String[] args) throws SlickException {
      FontTestGame game = new FontTestGame();
      AppGameContainer container = new AppGameContainer(game, 640, 480, false);
      container.setSmoothDeltas(true);
         container.setVSync(true);
         container.setTargetFrameRate(60);
      container.start();
   }

   @Override
    public void init(GameContainer arg0) throws SlickException {
      font = new UnicodeFont(new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.ITALIC, 26));
    }
   
   @Override
    public void update(GameContainer arg0, int arg1) throws SlickException {
    }
   
   public void render(GameContainer container, Graphics graphics) throws SlickException {
      graphics.setFont(font);
      graphics.setColor(Color.white);
       graphics.drawString("Capital P, V and Y seem to suffer the most from this!", 30, 30);
      
      font.drawString(30, 80, "Does this work?");
    }
}

      unicodeFont = new UnicodeFont("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf", 48, false, false);

import org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.BasicGame;
import org.newdawn.slick.Color;
import org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.Graphics;
import org.newdawn.slick.SlickException;
import org.newdawn.slick.UnicodeFont;
import org.newdawn.slick.font.effects.ColorEffect;

public class FontTestGame extends BasicGame {
   private static UnicodeFont font;

   private FontTestGame () throws SlickException {
      super("Font Tester");
   }

   public static void main (String[] args) throws SlickException {
      FontTestGame game = new FontTestGame();
      AppGameContainer container = new AppGameContainer(game, 640, 480, false);
      container.setSmoothDeltas(true);
      container.setVSync(true);
      container.setTargetFrameRate(60);
      container.start();
   }

   public void init (GameContainer container) throws SlickException {
      font = new UnicodeFont(new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.ITALIC, 26));

      // Fonts are drawn using org.newdawn.slick.font.effects.Effect. Without at least one effect, nothing is drawn.
      // If you use a .hiero file saved with the Hiero tool, then you don't need to add effects programmatically.
      // This is a simple effect that just fills in the glyphs with a color.
      // White lets us tint the font to any color at runtime.
      font.getEffects().add(new ColorEffect(java.awt.Color.white));

      // A TrueType font can contain 65536 glyphs. We don't want to load all possible glyphs up front!
      // This code adds the glyphs in the ASCII range (32 to 255) then tells the font to load them.
      font.addAsciiGlyphs();
      font.loadGlyphs();
   }

   public void update (GameContainer container, int delta) throws SlickException {
   }

   public void render (GameContainer container, Graphics g) throws SlickException {
      g.setFont(font);
      g.setColor(Color.white);
      g.drawString("Capital P, V and Y seem to suffer the most from this!", 30, 30);

      font.drawString(30, 80, "Does this work?", Color.red); // Text tinted red.

      // If a font is asked to draw glyphs it does not have loaded, they are added to the font.
      // Calling this in the game loop causes any unloaded glyphs to be loaded on the fly.
      font.loadGlyphs(5);
      // If you only need ASCII, you can preload all the glyphs and don't need this in the game loop.
      // On the fly loading is required when you can't know all glyphs needed up front.
      // Eg, imagine someone typing Chinese charatcers into a text box.
   }
}