add font outline to monkeyquest

[Vex]

I tried adding "MonkeyQuestFont:SetFont("FRIZQT__.ttf","12","OUTLINE, MONOCHROME"); to the monkeylibrary.lua but it seemingly had zero effect.

How do i add an outline to the font? The default shadow isn't enough when i have the background opacity set to 0.

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Vex I tried adding "MonkeyQuestFont:SetFont("FRIZQT__.ttf","12","OUTLINE, MONOCHROME"); to the monkeylibrary.lua but it seemingly had zero effect. How do i add an outline to the font? The default shadow isn't enough when i have the background opacity set to 0.

In your code, do you actually have a " in front of MonkeyQuestFont? Also, did you mean to do "OUTLINE", "MONOCHROME" ?

[Vex]

nope don't have " in front, and i didm't do "OUTLINE","MONOCRHOME" cause thats not how it was written on wowwiki ;( i'll try that though!

ok tried it.

this is exactly what i have:

MonkeyQuestFont:SetFont("FRIZQT__.ttf",12, "OUTLINE");
MonkeyQuestFontWide:SetFont("FRIZQT__.ttf",12, "OUTLINE");

tried it in both MonkeyLibrary.lua and MonkeyQuest.lua , no effect whatsoever.

I get lua error:

attempt to index global 'MonkeyQuestFont' (a nil value)

but this is in MonkeyQuest.xml

	<Layer level="ARTWORK">
				<FontString name="$parentText" inherits="MonkeyQuestFont" justifyH="LEFT">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
							<Offset>
								<AbsDimension x="0" y="6"/>
							</Offset>
						</Anchor>
					</Anchors>
				</FontString>
			</Layer>

[Vex]

also have tried the following - still no change /sigh

in MonkeyLibrary.xml

<FontString name="MonkeyQuestFontWide" inherits="MasterFont" outline="THICK" monochrome="TRUE"  font="Interface\AddOns\MonkeyLibrary\Fonts\framd.ttf" virtual="true">

in MonkeyQuest.xml

<Layer level="ARTWORK">
	<FontString name="$parentText" inherits="MonkeyQuestFont" outline="THICK" monochrome="TRUE" justifyH="LEFT">
		<Anchors>
			<Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
				<Offset>
					<AbsDimension x="0" y="6"/>
				</Offset>
			</Anchor>
		</Anchors>
	</FontString>
</Layer>

[Vex]

finally found it.

MonkeyQuestInit.lua line 412

		getglobal("MonkeyQuestButton" .. i .. "Text"):SetFont(strFontName, iFontHeight,"OUTLINE");