vsgl2::ttf_fonts Namespace Reference

Functions
string	load_font (string font, int dim)
void	draw_text (string font, int dim, string text, int x, int y, Color c)
	Use this function to display a text on the screen with the desired font and dimension. More...
int	text_width (string font, int dim, string text)
	Use this function to retrieve the width of a string, given the font, the dimension and the text. It can be useful because each character has a different size in general, so it could be very tricky to calculate the actual width of a string. More...
int	text_height (string font, int dim, string text)
	Use this function to retrieve the height of a string, given the font, the dimension and the text. It can be useful because each character has a different size in general, so it could be very tricky to calculate the actual height of a string. More...

Function Documentation

void draw_text	(	string	font,
		int	dim,
		string	text,
		int	x,
		int	y,
		Color	c
	)

Use this function to display a text on the screen with the desired font and dimension.

Parameters

font	The filename of the font.
dim	Font dimension
text	The text to be displayed
x	The x coordinate of the upper left corner of the text inside the window coordinates
y	The y coordinate of the upper left corner of the text inside the window coordinates
c	The color of the text

Warning

The font file have to be visible from the program

string vsgl2::ttf_fonts::load_font	(	string	font,
		int	dim
	)

int text_height	(	string	font,
		int	dim,
		string	text
	)

Use this function to retrieve the height of a string, given the font, the dimension and the text. It can be useful because each character has a different size in general, so it could be very tricky to calculate the actual height of a string.

Parameters

font	The filename of the font.
dim	Font dimension
text	The string to be displayed

Returns

The height in pixel

int text_width	(	string	font,
		int	dim,
		string	text
	)

Use this function to retrieve the width of a string, given the font, the dimension and the text. It can be useful because each character has a different size in general, so it could be very tricky to calculate the actual width of a string.

Parameters

font	The filename of the font.
dim	Font dimension
text	The string to be displayed

Returns

The width in pixel