TTF_Init(3)

💖 TTF_Init(3) — SDL_ttf3 FUNCTIONS 💖

okay so this is the very first thing you ever call in SDL_ttf, and bestie, it's giving doors open, lights on, welcome to the function ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TTF_Init — Initialize SDL_ttf.

fr fr that's it. that's the whole job. it wakes the library up 💅

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🎀 HEADER FILE 🎀

Defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h

iykyk, that's where all the good stuff lives 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

bool TTF_Init(void);

no arguments, no drama, just vibes and a bool 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay listen. you must successfully call this function before it is safe to call any other function in this library. not "should", not "ideally", not "if you feel like it" — must. this is the vibe check that everything else is waiting on 👑

It is safe to call this more than once, so go off, call it twice, nobody's gonna be mad 🌈

And here's the pairing rule, no cap: each successful TTF_Init() call should be paired with a matching TTF_Quit() call. init and quit are a matched set, they're the it-couple of this library 💞

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🍓 RETURN VALUE 🍓

Returns true on success or false on failure; call SDL_GetError() for more information.

so if you get false back, don't just sit there 😭 go hit up SDL_GetError() and it will tell you what went wrong. the receipts are right there bestie

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🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

This function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. so if you're on something ancient, that's a you problem, go update 😌

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• •(3)
• TTF_Quit(3)

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that's the whole page, go initialize something iconic 🧚‍♀️

with love from the SDL_ttf squad — this page is from the SDL_ttf manual, version 3.2.2, and yeah it's filed under TTF_Init(3). mwah 💋