[SDL] How do I make a bitmap font system with an image background

[Ricardo Cruz]

Hi there,

 I haven't seen the link you pointed initially (your mail client doesn't honor 
threads and I don't feel like searching for your early message), but probably 
the examples are using pixmap fonts. Bitmaps fonts (arrays of 0 and 1) are 
much better to do some visual tricks on like applying gradients, outlined 
them, whatever. Generally, people use SDL_TTF that outputs a surface with 
just 2 colors (a bitmap font, that is) and then apply some effects to make it 
more pretty.

 You may also want to explore code rendered fonts, where you just keep 
information on the code about each character and render them using 
primitives. If you don't understand, checkout:
http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/repository/graphical/#steadyfeet

 Anyway, nothing beats some profissional quality pixmap fonts.

Cheers,
 Ricardo

Em Terça, 18 de Julho de 2006 05:50, o benang at cs.its.ac.id escreveu:
> Maybe it won't be a problem with a static font, but what if I wanted to
> make a dinamyc font system (eg. the font can be moved around, can be
> lengthened or shortened in runtime, can animate like flashing font,
> etc.)??
>
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