(SOLVED) Two Bitmap fonts within the same nifty screen

Troubleshooting gui
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Hi,
I am using a quite simple startscreen based on Nifty. It contains only some text elements and some radio buttons of 2 Button groups.
Technically it’s working, but when I try to use use another bitmap font for the text and for the labels of the radio buttons, it wont do as wanted.

example 1 (I use the font parameter to assign different .fnt file)

<text text="Ball Art" font="Interface/Fonts/ArialBold.fnt" color="#ff0000" width="99%" height="20%"/>
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<control id="cl1" name="label" text="Rugby" align="right" width="100%" height="100%" font="Interface/Fonts/ErasLightITC.fnt" color="#0000ff"/>

But the Screen only use the first used font, even if I test 2 text elements.

example 2 (second text directly beneath the first)

<text text="Ball Art" font="Interface/Fonts/ArialBold.fnt" color="#ff0000" width="99%" height="20%"/>
<text text="second text" font="Interface/Fonts/ErasLightITC.fnt" color="#0000ff" width="99%" height="20%"/>
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Using styles works for us at least:

    <style id="text">
        <attributes font="Interface/Fonts/Frontend14.fnt" color="#bbbcbb" />
    </style>
    <style id="menuTextSmall">
        <attributes font="Interface/Fonts/Frontend20.fnt" color="#bbbcbb" />
    </style>

    <text style="text" text="${menu.71}" align="center">

(full source: OpenKeeper/MainMenu.xml at master · tonihele/OpenKeeper · GitHub)

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@tonihele Thanks for the fast reply!

Because of my holiday and corona quarantine I can right away test it

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unfortunately it doesn’t seem to look an other way. May by I’ve made a mistake somewhere else in the screen XML which causes this behavior. I think on first I will just use the text color for differ the display of the text and the labels, then I have a closer look to the Nifty tutorial to find out what I’ve missed.

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Are you sure that your fonts are actually any different to begin with? It works for us nicely, so I doubt your setup a bit.

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I tried to rebuild the screen from scratch, and found out that my bitmap fonts got to blame.
After I converted some new fonts from TTF to bitmap the behavior vanished.
It seems that I’ve somehow do a mistake while converting the first ones.

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looks like all fonts converted with JME IDE on my ubuntu 20.10 system has the same error the ones I copied from my old windows 10 environment still works. This sounds wired and I hope I ve just done a wrong configuration anywhere.

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How can I close this thread?

I recently notice some font setting within a nifty.xml (probably put there by myself, while I first try to get to know with nifty and forgotten there). Thats why all new Bitmapfonts failed.

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