[SDL] Border around text with TTF_RenderText

[James Buchwald]

There's three render modes for SDL_ttf... solid, shaded, and blended. If you
want smooth text with a transparent background, just go with blended. It
comes out with a transparent background, and it's still pretty fast.

As for the borders, I don't know. I don't think that functionality is built
in - you might have to write your own routines for that, if you really need
that.

On 6/8/07, voidstar <voidstar at tin.it> wrote:
>
> In my program I'm using this to write text:
>
> SDL_Color clrWhite = { 255,255,255, 0 };
> SDL_Color clrBlack = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
> ...
> TTF_RenderText_Shaded(font, "Hello", clrWhite, clrBlack);
>
> Is it possible to have a black (for example) border around each letter?
> Also, is it possible to set "transparent" as background color for the
> text?
>
> To have transparent color as background I could simply use
> TTF_RenderText_Solid,
> but using this function the text is not smooth.
>
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