This is a sample library which allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications. It comes with an example program "showfont" which displays an example string for a given TrueType font file.
Questions tagged [sdl-ttf]
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SDL2_ttf Subpixel Antialiasing
Is it possible to render text with the SDL2 library using a subpixel rendering technique to increase the quality on LCD screens? (Preferably with standard SDL2_ttf.)
The following image demonstrates precisely what I'm aiming for, where the image on…
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Why are my SDL_ttf fonts so pixelated and ugly? Are there better ways of rendering fonts?
Here is an example:
Here is the corresponding code:
TTF_Font *Sans = TTF_OpenFont("resources/fonts/lato/Lato-Semibold.ttf", 36);
if( Sans == NULL )
{
std::cout << "Failed to load font! SDL_ttf Error: " << TTF_GetError() <<…
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SDL memory leak
So I tryed to make something on SDL, but on first programm I have memory lear (idk leak or not) so there is some code:
#include
#include
#include
#include
#define SCREENSIZEX 180
#define SCREENSIZEY…
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SDL_ttf textures in vector affects other's destination rectangle
I was following Lazy Foo' tutorial to create text using ttf font, and everything was fine, but I needed to create several text lines in several different places with different font size and color, so I decided to use vector. Here is my code of…
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Rendering font with UTF8 in SDL_ttf
I am trying to render characters using the TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended method provided by the SDL_ttf library. I implemented user input (keyboard) and pressing 'ä' or 'ß' for example works fine. These are special characters of the German language. In…
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SDL_TTF : undefined reference to "TTF_INIT"
I'm trying to learn how to use SDL_TTF library. But i'm unable to solve an error of type :
undefined reference to "TTF_INIT"
here is the simple code that im trying to compile and use :
#include
#include
#include…
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SDL_ttf "Couldn't load font file" with SDL2 in c++
I have the following code to draw some text in an SDL2 application. When I build and run, I'm consistently seeing an error of TTF_OpenFont() Failed: Couldn't load font file. I've tried the following:
Ensured the font file is in the current…
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Rendering specific characters within a string different colors (SDL_ttf)
So I have 25 lines of text with 40 characters per line held in an array of strings, and within that there are control codes which denote a colour which the following chars should be, for example one line may be:
[RED] Hello [BLUE] World
Where Hello…
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SDL_TTF slow printing effect
So, I'm working on a command prompt game, and right now I'm starting small. I've gotten the basics down for a slow printing text system, but I've encountered a problem that I'm unsure how to fix.
Basically; the text stretches to fit the predefined…
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Why am I unable to draw to a texture in SDL2?
I've been working on a project in SDL on nights and weekends for the past few months. I'm currently trying to get a menu system working. At the moment, I'm working on drawing text using SDL_TTF. As for my question, I'm seeing some strange behavior…
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SDL show score on screen
Working on a Pong clone. Having serious issues with trying to display the score on the screen. Alot of things I've found are using images but I just want to use text to display the score number. I'm trying to use the SDL TTF library to load a font…
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Odd behavior with unsigned 16 bit integers and SDL_TTF
I'm writing a program that renders font in SDL. I have a struct with the color and text of a 'pixel.' It causes a segmentation fault, and I can't make any sense of it.
struct pixInfo
{
SDL_Color bColor;
SDL_Color tColor;
Uint16…
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TTF_OpenFont fails on Nth attempt
I'm trying to make a game in C using SDL_ttf to display the score every time the diplay is refreshed. The code looks like :
SDL_Surface *score = NULL;
TTF_Font *font;
SDL_Color color = { 255, 255, 255 };
font = TTF_OpenFont(…
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Make_Pair identifier not found in one function but found in another
I’m trying to make a dictionary of fonts with SDL_ttf, just like I made a dictionary with SDL_image. Since fonts are stored with a pnt_size I made a struct containing this info:
struct fontinfo
{
string assetname;
int size;
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SDL TTF not showing ellipsis on some fonts
On some fonts, I can't get SDL_TTF to render some glyphs (such as …), even when I know they are present (if I use the same font in, say, gedit, it works fine).
Makefile:
test: test.c
gcc -o test -ansi -pedantic -Wall test.c `sdl-config --cflags…
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