A Simple Side-Scrolling Shooting Game - C# Game Programming: For Serious Game Creation - page 296

The font file needs to be loaded in the Form.cs. If we were dealing with many
fonts, it might be worth creating a FontManager class, but because we're only
using one or two they can just be stored as member variables. Here is the code to
load the font files.

private void InitializeTextures()
{

// Init DevIl
Il.ilInit();
Ilu.iluInit();
Ilut.ilutInit();
Ilut.ilutRenderer(Ilut.ILUT_OPENGL);

// Textures are loaded here.
_textureManager.LoadTexture("title_font", "title_font.tga");

}

Engine.Font _titleFont;
private void InitializeFonts()
{

_titleFont ¼ new Engine.Font(_textureManager.Get("title_font"),
FontParser.Parse("title_font.fnt"));

}

The font texture is loaded in the IntializeTextures function and this is
used when the font object is created in the IntializeFonts method.
The title font can then be passed into the StartMenuState constructor. Add
the following new StartMenuState to the Shooter project.

class StartMenuState : IGameObject
{

Renderer _renderer ¼ new Renderer();
Text

_title;

public StartMenuState(Engine.Font titleFont)
{

_title ¼ new Text("Shooter", titleFont);
_title.SetColor(new Color(0, 0, 0, 1));
// Center on the x and place somewhere near the top
_title.SetPosition(-_title.Width/2,300);

}