Text output

Allegro provides text output routines that work with both monochrome and color fonts, which can contain any number of Unicode character ranges. The grabber program can create fonts from sets of characters drawn in a bitmap file (see grabber.txt for more information), and can also import GRX or BIOS format font files. The font structure contains a number of hooks that can be used to extend it with your own custom drawing code: see the definition in allegro/text.h for details.

font - A simple 8x8 fixed size font.
allegro_404_char - Character used when Allegro cannot find a glyph.
text_length - Returns the length of a string in pixels.
text_height - Returns the height of a font in pixels.
textout_ex - Writes a string on a bitmap.
textout_centre_ex - Writes a centered string on a bitmap.
textout_right_ex - Writes a right aligned string on a bitmap.
textout_justify_ex - Draws justified text within a region.
textprintf_ex - Formatted output of a string.
textprintf_centre_ex - Formatted centered output of a string.
textprintf_right_ex - Formatted right aligned output of a string.
textprintf_justify_ex - Formatted justified output of a string.

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Text output