TTF_GetNumFontFaces(3)

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

✨ TTF_GetNumFontFaces ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the SDL_ttf3 girlies' corner of the man pages 💅 this one lives in the SDL_ttf3 FUNCTIONS section and it's literally called TTF_GetNumFontFaces(3). yes the title is right there, we're not doing the whole header-line thing, we're doing vibes 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

TTF_GetNumFontFaces — query the number of faces of a font. that's it. that's the whole job. she counts faces. icon behaviour fr fr 👑

🎀 HEADER FILE 🎀

defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h — that's where she lives, that's her address, no cap 🏠✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

int TTF_GetNumFontFaces(const TTF_Font *font);

look at her. so small. so powerful. const because she would never mess with your font, she's just here to observe and report 🫶

💖 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 💖

  • font — the font to query. that's the one you're asking about. hand her the font, she tells you the tea ☕

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

returns the number of FreeType font faces. yes bestie, that's the count, the whole count, and nothing but the count 🔢✨

🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

it is safe to call this function from any thread. literally any thread. go wild. thread it from everywhere. she does not care, she's unbothered, she's booked and busy and fully thread-safe 💅🔥

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. so if you're on anything older than that… bestie. it's giving ancient. upgrade 🙈

real talk though: no weird edge cases, no deprecated nonsense, no undefined behaviour lurking in here. she's a clean, simple, honest little function and we respect her for it 🥹💜

and that's the whole page!! ty for coming to my TED talk 🎤✨ this was SDL_ttf version 3.2.2, mwah, love u, go count some faces, periodt 💖🎀🦋🌸🫶👑🌈💅

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