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al_draw_text problem
William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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Hi,
I'm trying to write text to a bitmap with a truetype font. My program crashes at the
call to al_draw_text(). I haven't managed to work out why.

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1#include <stdio.h> 2#include <stdlib.h> 3#include <time.h> 4 5#include <allegro5/allegro.h> 6 7#include <allegro5/allegro_image.h> 8#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h> 9#include <allegro5/allegro_ttf.h> 10#define WRITE(string) fprintf(output, string) 11 12 13 14int initialise_allegro(void); 15 16 17int main() 18{ 19 FILE *output = NULL; 20 ALLEGRO_FONT *font; 21 ALLEGRO_BITMAP *bitmap = NULL; 22 ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = NULL; 23 ALLEGRO_COLOR colour; 24 25 const char *text = "783"; 26 27 output = fopen("output.txt", "w"); 28 29 srand(time(NULL)); 30 31 if(initialise_allegro() == 1) 32 { 33 printf("Initialise allegro failed.\n"); 34 return 1; 35 } 36 37 display = al_create_display(640, 480); 38 if(display == NULL) 39 { 40 printf("Couldn't create display.\n"); 41 return 1; 42 } 43 printf("10\n"); 44 45 colour = al_map_rgba(255, 255, 255, 255); 46 47 al_set_new_bitmap_flags(ALLEGRO_VIDEO_BITMAP); 48 al_set_new_bitmap_format(ALLEGRO_PIXEL_FORMAT_ANY_32_WITH_ALPHA); 49 bitmap = al_create_bitmap(72, 12); 50 if(bitmap == NULL) 51 { 52 printf("Couldn't create a bitmap."); 53 return 0; 54 } 55 else 56 { 57 printf("20\n"); 58 } 59 al_set_target_bitmap(bitmap); 60 printf("30\n"); 61 al_clear_to_color(colour); 62 printf("40\n"); 63 if(bitmap == NULL) 64 { 65 printf("bitmap NULL.\n"); 66 return 1; 67 } 68 else 69 { 70 printf("45\n"); 71 } 72 73 74 font = al_load_ttf_font("SimpleRonde-Regular.ttf", 12, 0); 75 if(font == NULL) 76 { 77 printf("Couldn't load font."); 78 return 1; 79 } 80 else 81 { 82 printf("Loaded font.\n"); 83 } 84 85 86 87 if(font == NULL) 88 { 89 printf("Font pointer NULL\n"); 90 return 1; 91 } 92 else 93 { 94 printf("font pointer not null.\n"); 95 } 96 al_set_target_bitmap(bitmap); 97 if(font == NULL) 98 { 99 printf("Font pointer NULL\n"); 100 return 1; 101 } 102 else 103 { 104 printf("font pointer not null.\n"); 105 } 106 if(bitmap == NULL) 107 { 108 printf("bitmap NULL.\n"); 109 return 1; 110 } 111 else 112 { 113 printf("bitmap not NULL\n"); 114 } 115 al_draw_text(font, al_map_rgb(0, 0, 0), 0, 0, 0, "222"); 116 printf("50\n"); 117 if(bitmap == NULL) 118 { 119 printf("Can't save bitmap.\n"); 120 return 1; 121 } 122 printf("bitmap width = %d", al_get_bitmap_width(bitmap)); 123 if(al_save_bitmap("bitmap.bmp", bitmap) == false) 124 { 125 printf("Failed to save bitmap.\n"); 126 return 1; 127 } 128 else 129 { 130 printf("Saved bitmap.\n"); 131 } 132 133 printf("30\n"); 134 135 if(output == NULL) 136 { 137 printf("file pointer \"output\" is NULL. Couldn't open file."); 138 return 1; 139 } 140 141 fprintf(output, "\\documentclass(article)\n"); 142 143 fprintf(output, "\\title(Arithmetic Practice)"); 144 145 WRITE("\n\\includepackage(graphicx)"); 146 WRITE("\n\\usepackage(amsmath)"); 147 WRITE("\n\\begin(document)"); 148 149 150 151 fclose(output); 152 return 0; 153} 154 155 156int initialise_allegro() 157{ 158 al_install_system(ALLEGRO_VERSION_INT, atexit); 159 160 161 162 if(al_init_image_addon() == false) 163 { 164 printf("Couldn't initialise image addon."); 165 return 1; 166 } 167 168 169 al_init_font_addon(); 170 if(al_init_ttf_addon() == false) 171 { 172 printf("Couldn't initialise truetype font addon\n"); 173 return 1; 174 } 175 176 177 return 0; 178}

Frank Drebin
Member #2,987
December 2002
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I tried using the font Arial and it seemed to work fine:

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30
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45
Loaded font.
font pointer not null.
font pointer not null.
bitmap not NULL
50
bitmap width = 72Saved bitmap.
30

Maybe there's something wrong with your font file?

William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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Hi,

not wanting to be a pain but I've swapped the code to load arial.ttf and it still does what it used to on my computer. It obviously doesn't do the same on my computer as it does on your computer.
I wonder why.

I've got

liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-md.a

as the linker options.

Could it be that my PATH variable isn't set up properly so the program can find the files it needs. I'm using Windows 8 and code::blocks

Frank Drebin
Member #2,987
December 2002
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I'm using Allegro 5.2.4. Why don't you switch to a more recent version of Allegro?

What is the output on your computer?

William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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The console prints out :

10
20
30
40
45
Loaded font.
font pointer not null.
font pointer not null.
bitmap not NULL

Process returned -1073741819 (0xC0000005) execution time : 2.007 s
Press any key to continue.

I'll try the version your using and see how that goes.

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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