Monospaced font now not monospaced in latest ngui and 4.x

[arkon3]

Hi,

In Unity 3.x I had a monospaced font using NGUI and the font in the atlas. I've changed to Unity 4.x and taken the font out of the atlas and used the Dynamic setting in NGUI instead and now the font is no longer monospaced but changes width depending on the number it's displaying. How can I use 4.x, NGUI and get the font to not jigger its width as the contents change?

[ArenMook]

Dynamic fonts in NGUI simply go by what Unity is reporting for that font. If Unity says the character is 20 pixels wide, then NGUI will believe that it is. What font is that, and why do you believe it's monospaced?

[arkon3]

It's EthnoCen.ttf, Previously I exported it from bmfont and added it as a bitmap font in NGUI. On the change to Unity 4.x I deleted the bitmap font and used your Dynamic font setting instead on a label.

Now the behaviour is different. Previously a string '00000000' was a set width and changing the string to '00100000' would have been the same width printed in the label. Now it changes size depending on the what the 8 chars actually are.

So it might not have been a monospaced font previously but in NGUI it behaved like it. Now it doesn't. Any ideas?

[Nicki]

Your exporter probably exported it monospaced for some reason. You can't easily achieve that with dynamic fonts, but you can hack together a solution in UIlabel or NGUIText where you can set a fixed width of each character, or go back to the bitmap font.

If you're just using it for a score (usually what you'd use monospaced for) then use a tiny bitmap with just numbers and you're set to go. You can just use non-monospaced dynamic version of it for any text that has to match the style.