Fonts and text in runtime

Only a limited subset of the Font/Text functionality is exposed in the Scaleform Studio Editor. You will find that more functionality is available with our Lua and C++ APIs. For more details on text related APIs refer to

• scaleform.TextComponent
• scaleform.TextFormat
• scaleform.ParagraphFormat

Here is the basic example of creating text in Lua:

-- Create a TextFormat to customize the font displayed in the TextField below

local textFormat = 
    scaleform.TextFormat.create();
scaleform.TextFormat.set_color(textFormat,{red=255, green=255, blue=255, alpha=255});
scaleform.TextFormat.set_font_name(textFormat,"OpenSans-Regular.ttf");
scaleform.TextFormat.set_font_size(textFormat, 20);

-- Create TextField

local textField, textFieldComp = 
    scaleform.Actor.create(mainScene, scaleform.TextComponent);
scaleform.Actor.set_local_position(textField, {x=10,y= 10});

scaleform.TextComponent.set_text(textFieldComp,"Text Example ");
scaleform.TextComponent.set_auto_size_x(textFieldComp,true);
scaleform.TextComponent.set_multiline(textFieldComp,true);
scaleform.TextComponent.set_text_format(textFieldComp,textFormat);

You can find additional examples in our Lua samples.