Application startup questions

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I want to set/load the font I imported in the New() method of my Window Class.  I cannot get this to work, because I have no access to the private _canvas field.

This is my work around at the moment in the OnRender() method:

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Method OnRender( c:Canvas) Override ' this forces rendering each frame. ' uses vsync App.RequestRender() c.Font = Font.Load( "asset::arcade.ttf", 20 ) ' drawing is done by calling canvas method c.DrawImage(i,100,10) c.DrawText("hello",0,0) ' key checks are method of the keyboard class If Keyboard.KeyDown(Key.A) Then App.Terminate() End Method

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Method OnRender( c:Canvas) Override   ' this forces rendering each frame. ' uses vsync App.RequestRender()   c.Font = Font.Load( "asset::arcade.ttf", 20 )   ' drawing is done by calling canvas method c.DrawImage(i,100,10) c.DrawText("hello",0,0)   ' key checks are method of the keyboard class If Keyboard.KeyDown(Key.A) Then App.Terminate()   End Method

Of course, this sucks. I want to set up before hand, and I do not want to load a font file on each render. Has any of you solved this?

Oh and another thing: I see people using this method to run update code as well. How to separate updates from render code??  Can this be done or am I over complicating things??

Thanks!

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