TTF_DestroyText(3)

💖 TTF_DestroyText(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the SDL_ttf3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, where today's main character is TTF_DestroyText. it's giving cleanup era ✨

✨ NAME ✨

TTF_DestroyText — destroy a text object created by a text engine. 🫶

basically: you made a text object, you loved it, you rendered it, and now we say goodbye. closure is self-care fr fr 💅

🌸 HEADER FILE 🌸

defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h — that's the one, no cap 📌

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

void TTF_DestroyText(TTF_Text *text);

look at her. one function, one pointer, zero drama. iconic 👑

🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• text — the text to destroy. like, the actual text object you want gone. poof. 🪄

💜 THREAD SAFETY 💜

⚠️ this function should be called on the thread that created the text. not a different thread, not your friend's thread, not the thread you met at a party once. the same one. periodt 💀

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. she's been here. she's a veteran. ⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• •(3)
• TTF_CreateText(3)

like, obviously go read TTF_CreateText(3) — you can't destroy what you never created, iykyk 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no notes, ate, left zero crumbs. this little writeup is chillin' in SDL_ttf 3.2.2, so if you see that version number floatin' around, that's just her signature 🎀 bye ily, go free your memory 💖🦋✨