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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.

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How to render fonts and text with SDL2 efficiently?

Saw this post here about using SDL_ttf to render text in a game. However that approach requires calling SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(), along with the SDL_FreeSurface() and SDL_DestroyTexture() every single frame. Is creating textures (and probably…
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Using SDL_ttf with OpenGL

I'm using OpenGL and SDL to create a window in my program. How do I use SDL_ttf with an OpenGL window? For example I want to load a font and render some text. I want to draw the text using an SDL OpenGL surface.
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How to do line-breaks and line-wrapping with SDL-TTF?

I just started using SDL2_ttf. I've figured out how to get some text on the screen with TTF_RenderText_Blended, but how do can I get it to do line-breaks and automatic wrapping? It doesn't seem to support \n; it just creates a space instead of…
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Displaying text with SDL TTF with SDL2 and OpenGL

I'm trying to display text using SDL2 TTF and OpenGL. A weird texture appears in the window, it's got the right size and the right position but you can't see any letters. I've tried using the SDL_CreateRGBSurface() thinking that it might be a…
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sdl ttf_rendertext_blended fails randomly

EDIT: Even that the problem still exists, I haven't been able to reproduce this frequently enough to examine it closer. See more info at the end of the question. I started to develop a game, and I am currently writing basic library for it. I'm…
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TTF_OpenFont() returns NULL

Here are the facts: I am using codeblocks on Ubuntu. I have installed SDL and SDL_ttf and have included and linked them successfully. I want to render text to the screen of the font, FreeSerif. Here is the problem: When the program gets to the…
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SDL2_TTF on Ubuntu: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lSDL2_ttf

I've looked at several possible solutions to try to fix this, but I'm still having the following issue with drawing text with SDL_ttf and SDL2. julian@julian-linux:~/Documents/SDL/Font Demo/pt2$ make g++ texttest.cpp -w -lSDL2 -lSDL2_ttf…
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Is SDL2_ttf incapable of rendering characters that are longer than two bytes?

I'm switching from SFML to SDL2 in my program, and I started using SDL2_ttf to render text in UTF-8 format. I use the function TTF_RenderUTF8_Solid. I noticed that some characters are not rendered correctly anymore. One example is '' (U+1F70D). I…
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SDL not rendering truetype font

I'm not entirely sure this is the best place for this, but I can't think of anywhere better I've "made" a low resolution font. (bonus points if you know where it's actually from) The font works fine in gedit: However, when trying to render the font…
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Status of NPOT textures in OpenGL today

I'm currently writing a game that uses 2D OpenGL output under sdl, and I'm trying to load text using SDL_ttf. However I have to pad the text with blank pixels as it appears that plain OpenGL doesn't support non-power of two textures. I've heard that…
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How do find out the width and height of the text without using surface in SDL2?

I wanted to create a separate function where I could just send a string and it will render the text appropriately so that I didn't need to copy-paste same stuff. The function I came up with is in the following. void renderText(SDL_Renderer*…
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SDL_TTF draws garbage

I asked a question the other day, about rendering TTF fonts using SDL, and was pointed towards SDL_TTFL I've tried using the SDL_TTF library, but All I'm getting is garbage on screen I have included my shaders, which are very simple for this…
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How do I render high quality monochrome text with SDL2_TTF?

I'm writing a game with old school low resolution graphics. I'm using SDL2_TTF to render monochrome text but it doesn't seem to be hinted properly. I set the hinting with TTF_SetFontHinting(font, TTF_HINTING_MONO) and rendered the text with all…
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SDL TTF - Line wrapping & changing height of wrapped lines?

I've been programming a small text adventure game using SDL2 recently and have come across an issue with line wrapping. I am using TTF_RenderText_Blended_Wrapped() to render my strings, and this gives me some nicely wrapped lines. But The line…
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TTF_OpenFont returning NULL

TTF_OpenFont() returns NULL I have the same problem, TTF_OpenFont returns NULL and with an error. TTF_OpenFont("/absolute/path/to/SourceSansPro-Black.ttf", 25); std::cout << TTF_GetError() << std::endl; And I get the "Couldn't load font…
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