How to clone BitmapFont object?

[vatuma]

When I load assets in usual way I can create several objects from a single bitmap font file:

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redFont = new BitmapFont(fontFileHandle, false);
redFont.setColor(redColor);

greenFont = new BitmapFont(fontFileHandle, false);
greenFont.setColor(greenColor);


But how to do something like this when loading assets via AssetManager?
So if I create redFont:

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redFont = assetManager.get(fontFileName, BitmapFont.class);
redFont.setColor(redColor);


then how can I create greenFont?
Do I understand right that I have to use another font file for this?
Or can I somehow clone redFont?

[NateS]

It isn't efficient to load the same font only to change the color. Better to use one font and set the color before drawing with it. That said, you could use 2 font files. This makes sense if you have two fonts that are actually different, eg use Hiero to have different colored gradients. You can also probably do this... (untested)

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BitmapFont redFont = new BitmapFont(greenFont.getData(), greenFont.getRegion(), greenFont.usesIntegerPositions());
redFont.setColor(1, 0, 0, 1);


[vatuma]

Thank you, Nates! That works

[Betalord]

I have another problem: I need to clone font completely (including font data). This is because I need an alternative version of the font where markup language is enabled. If I copy font as indicated above, font data object is just copied over (by reference) and hence enabling the markup language would enable it for the original font as well.
I need a markup language version font because I can't have the original font use it since user could type something like "[]" in an edit box and crash the application this way. So I need a non-markup version of the font for most widgets, and markup enabled version for certain widgets (like labels etc.).

Any idea how to completely clone the font?