Audio and Labels - Learn SpriteBuilder for iOS Game Development - page 399

Figure 11-16 . Bitmap font label properties
Speaking of bitmap font label properties, the Opacity , Color , and Blend mode properties
are borrowed from the sprite properties and have the same effect. The Label text and
Localize properties are the same as for TTF labels. Only the Font file property is new, but
it's nothing special.
Use the Font file property to browse and select the gd.bmfont file in the Fonts folder. If
you are using your own bitmap font, just select that. The type of font doesn't actually mat-
ter as long as the font is working.
Then enter Hits: %i in the Label text field as seen in Figure 11-16 . You can use any string
format specifiers, like %i , %@ , %.1f , and so on in a label's text field. This allows you to
fill in the missing parts at runtime with little effort. Click the Localize check box to make
the initial string the key for the localized string and to enable the Edit button. Click the
Edit button to bring up the localization dialog.
In the localization dialog, enter Hits: %i in the column labeled English (en) and enter
Treffer: %i in the column labeled German (de) , or use whatever language you initially ad-
ded and enter the corresponding language string instead of the German text. Just make
sure all language strings contain the same number and types of string format specifiers. In
this case, there ought to be a %i in every translated language string. Figure 11-17 shows
the result of editing the localized strings.