How do you get a font by name?

Hello!

I am trying to get a font by name (e.g. "BigRedFont").

The usual way in the engine to do this is to use the

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getFont(id) function, but that takes the font ID, not its name and that's not very helpful.

I saw this post (http://community.stencyl.com/index.php?topic=45647.0) about this topic which says to use the following code:

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for (res in Data.get().resources)
{
   if (Std.is(res, Font) && res.name == "Font Name Here")
   {
       return cast (res, Font);       
   }
}

return null;

However,  this does not work for me. It returns null.
So I went and printed (traced) the whole Data.get().resources object and I noticed that multiple of my fonts are missing from there.

My guess is that the fonts are not loaded yet in the scene, but I was out of luck browsing the Stencyl Haxe API for a solution.

Does anyone know a foolproof method to get a Font by its resource name?

Thanks a lot!

Recreate the attached image. It uses a global custom block with a text parameter called "FontName" and an "Import" event. The code reads:

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import com.stencyl.Data;

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return cast Data.get().resourceMap.get(__FontName);