SpriteFont has no name property?!

1

Hello,
Monogame and Community

When loading my assets into my code I put them all into Generic List and call them by name with the Find method, but I see the SpriteFont doesn’t have a name Property like Texture2D does.

I don’t know what to do. I NEED to call my assets by name.

Thanks,
Ryan

I’m new to C# and MonoGame

2

When you load the fonts you used a name. Use that name when adding them to the list.

3

I was thinking dictionary. Use a dictionary and add the fonts to that using the name you loaded the font with.

4

You could just wrap the spritefont sort of nice that way too.

    // can be a struct or a class...
    public struct MyFont
    {
        string name;
        SpriteFont instance;

        public string Name { get { return name; } }
        public SpriteFont Instance{ get { return instance; } }
        public static implicit operator String(MyFont _this){return _this.Name;} 
        public static implicit operator SpriteFont(MyFont _this){return _this.instance;}

        public MyFont(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentManager content, string name)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.instance = content.Load<SpriteFont>(name);
        }
    }

test

Game1 ..ect....

MyFont myfont;

// for testing
string s;
SpriteFont sf;

...ect...

        protected override void LoadContent()
        {
             ...

             myfont = new MyFont(Content, "MgGenFont");

             s = myfont;
             sf = myfont;

             // so you can just pass myfont to a spritebatch drawstring call
             //
             // spriteBatch.DrawString(myfont, "test", Vector2.Zero, Color.White);

             s = myfont.Name;
             sf = myfont.Instance;

          .... ect ...

Now it has a name property.

5

No need to do what you are doing. ContentManager is doing the same thing internally.
If you call content.Load(“font1”) it will return the same instance of the cached SpriteFont.