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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Text in sdlada
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:45:42 +0000
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Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-12-02 17:31, Lucretia wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:27:27 UTC, björn lundin  wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> I'm playing with sdlada 2.1.1 and I am looking for a way to write text
>>> on my window.
>>> 
>>> Looking at c(++)- tutorials they all seem to use SDL2_TTF
>>> which I think is not part of 'core' SDL,
>>> and I cannot find anything like it in the sdlada binding.
>>> 
>> 
>> I've not added TTF yet. It's on the TODO list.
>> 
> 
> Yes, I noticed. But I was thinking if there is
> another way - not using TT-fonts.
> But I guess not then.
> 
> Thanks for a good binding though
> 

The alternative way of doing text is to create a font as a texture and map
that to quads that you render. I've just spent the last 2 days getting my
oses back after a motherboard and you change.

I'm now back at work so it'll be a while before I get back to it.