Possible to change shared font during run-time?

Legacy UDK Programming and UnrealScript
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The way scaleform is configured in UDK, there is a GFxUI.int file that defines what shared font library to use when loading a swf.

However I built my own localization system as UDK was built to define the language at install, which doesn’t work with the way Steam is setup (you upload the pre-installed game). So i’d like to be able to repoint my swf’s to use different font libraries during runtime.

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Did you ever figure this out? I’m trying to change the font used based on which language the game is running in. Changing GFxUI.* doesn’t seem to work.

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No i’m afraid not. I did manage to have all my swf movies using font’s from a single shared movie though.

With my CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) languages, I actually just switch over to a different swfs that use a unicode font. So i have two versions of every swf. Kinda hacky, but it’s the best solution i could come up with, and i didn’t want to use the unicode for all, as I’m not so keen on the padding etc it uses.

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Hey there, don’t mind me. I’m just stalking you through all your old posts. To update you on what I do now: In my expansion/sequel’s UI, I switched virtually all of my ActionScript textField.text references to textField.htmlText. In UnrealScript I assemble some html4 strings with <font> tags and the game now switches totally seamlessly from one language to another.
[Edit: I had written “<font> tags” above, but without the surrounding backticks originally, so it just looked like “tags” and the word “<font>” didn’t show up. ]

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That is not switching fonts. That is just telling your textfield to parse html tags. It’s still using the same font.

The font I use for my primary languages does not support Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters (it is not unicode). The one you are using probably is using a unicode font.

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UnrealScript:

class SRVLocalizationData extends Object;
var localized string htmlFont; // This string is different for every language

var localized string MenuName_Localized;
...
function LabelMenu()
{
	local string htmlString;
	local GFxObject MenuLabel;
	local GFxObject TextField;

	MenuLabel = MenuContainer.GetObject("menuNameLabel");
	TextField = MenuLabel.GetObject("textField");
	htmlString = "<font size=\"" $ LocalizationData.titleFontSize $ "\" face=\"" $ LocalizationData.htmlFont $ "\">" $ MenuName_Localized $ "</font>";
	TextField.SetString("htmlText", htmlString);
}

I promise you I’m switching fonts at runtime, using different fonts for English, Chinese, and Japanese, all without loading a new swf file.