TTF_GetFontStyle(3)

📦 version 3.2.2, in debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ TTF_GetFontStyle ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to TTF_GetFontStyle(3) 💖 this one lives in the SDL_ttf3 functions corner of the manual, and it's literally just "hey font, what style are you wearing rn?"

🌸 NAME 🌸

TTF_GetFontStyle — query a font's current style 🎀

📁 HEADER FILE 📁

Defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h — yeah, that's the one you gotta include, no cap 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

TTF_FontStyleFlags TTF_GetFontStyle(const TTF_Font *font);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So the font styles? They're not one single vibe — they're a set of bit flags, all OR'd together ✨ like a little friend group of style options. Here's the whole squad:

  • TTF_STYLE_NORMAL (and lowkey important: it is zero — the "nothing extra going on" flag 👑)
  • TTF_STYLE_BOLD
  • TTF_STYLE_ITALIC
  • TTF_STYLE_UNDERLINE
  • TTF_STYLE_STRIKETHROUGH

That's it, that's the list. The way that a font can be bold AND italic AND underlined at the same time? iconic. that's the OR'ing doing its thing 💜

🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

  • font — the font we're querying, aka the main character we're asking about 🦋

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

( TTF_FontStyleFlags ) — it hands you back the font's current style, as a set of bit flags ✨ so like, check the bits, queen 👑

🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

Good news bestie: it is safe to call this function from any thread. Go wild, no stress, fr fr 🫶

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

This function has been around since SDL_ttf 3.0.0 💜 so unless you're time traveling, you're good.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

not me writing a whole manpage for a getter 💀 but honestly? knowing what style your font is currently serving is kind of essential. iykyk.

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this lil page came to you straight out of SDL_ttf 3.2.2, the SDL_ttf manual, for TTF_GetFontStyle(3). go forth and query your fonts, you absolute legend 💅✨

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