SpriteFonts on iOS

iOS
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I’ve been banging my head against the wall on this for 3 hours now. Are SpriteFonts still working on iOS? I had a bunch of SpriteFont XNB files that worked perfectly with MonoGame on iOS about a month ago, and now I cannot get them working for the life of me. When I try to load one in Debug configuration, my game crashes on GL.GetError with a MonoGameGLException, and when I load one in Release configuration, I just see black boxes where the font should be.

To make matters worse, none of the MonoGame iOS Test projects are working/building anymore for me to cross-reference and test with. (I think this is due to the new separation of MonoGame.Framework.Net.iOS, but even after I add that reference to the test solution, my test projects still crash.)

Can anyone give me a link to a working SpriteFont XNB file so that I can test it on my system? Also, what settings are you using on the content files in the project (BundleResource/Content, Copy Always, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.

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Well, not surprisingly, this turned out to be user error. (The weird thing is that it was working fine on the Simulator, but crashed on the device.) Anyway, somehow I got an old version of my XNB files in my project, and that was apparently the problem.

Side note: Although I suspect this isn’t possible and/or isn’t easy to do, I would kill for a more descriptive MonoGame error message when an XNB file fails to load. It’s my own fault, but I’ve been bitten by this type of thing way too many times now :frowning: