knowing used default font

[beo6]

I want to revert back to the default font after i have drawn a text on the screen.

But using

 

self.originalFont = context:GetFont()

 

does not work unless

context:SetFont(self.font)

 

was at least called once before.

 

But since the game draws texts by default already with probably the default font (Arial)

i wonder why it does not return the default font.

 

How is everyone else doing this?

I don't want to set the font after my script is done drawing, guessing that the user is using the default font.

[macklebee]

After using GetFont() to obtain the default, add a reference for it. So the code would look like:

self.originalFont = context:GetFont()
self.originalFont:AddRef()

This works for me, then you can load and set other fonts as needed. Granted I am still not clear why the GetFont() command does not automatically add a reference for itself but I am sure there is some grand reasoning behind some of the these decisions.