TTF_RenderText_LCD(3)

💖 TTF_RenderText_LCD(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL_ttf3 functions club — this one lives in the SDL_ttf3 section of the manual, and it is literally the glow-up your text has been waiting for. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

TTF_RenderText_LCD — render UTF-8 text at LCD subpixel quality to a new ARGB surface. it's giving crisp. it's giving subpixel. it's giving ✨new surface✨.

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📁 HEADER FILE 📁

Defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h — that's the one, don't @ me. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

SDL_Surface * TTF_RenderText_LCD(TTF_Font *font, const char *text, size_t length, SDL_Color fg, SDL_Color bg);

copy it exactly, no cap. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the way this works: this function will allocate a new 32-bit, ARGB surface, and render alpha-blended text using FreeType's LCD subpixel rendering. it returns the new surface, or NULL if there was an error. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 💜

⚠️ heads up: it returns NULL on error, so check your pointer before you go using it, bestie. 😭

this will not word-wrap the string. you'll get a surface with a single line of text, as long as the string requires. if you need to wrap the output to multiple lines, use

TTF_RenderText_LCD_Wrapped () instead. 🫶

this will not wrap on newline characters. nope. not happening. 🙈

and if you wanna render at other quality levels, you have options, icon:

• TTF_RenderText_Solid
• TTF_RenderText_Shaded
• TTF_RenderText_Blended

pick your fighter. 👑

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• font — the font to render with. your main character. 🧚
• text — text to render, in UTF-8 encoding. yes, UTF-8, we're not living in the dark ages. 🌈
• length — the length of the text, in bytes, or 0 for null terminated text. zero means "just read til the null, trust". ⭐
• fg — the foreground color for the text. the lewk. 💅
• bg — the background color for the text. the canvas behind the lewk. 🍓

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🫶 RETURN VALUE 🫶

Returns a new 32-bit, ARGB surface, or NULL if there was an error. that's the whole deal, fr fr. 🔥

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🧵 THREAD SAFETY 🧵

This function should be called on the thread that created the font. like, the same thread. don't be sending it off to some other thread, it'll get messy. 💀

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📅 AVAILABILITY 📅

This function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. vintage-ish but make it slay. ✨

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• •(3)
• TTF_RenderText_Blended(3)
• •(3)
• TTF_RenderText_LCD_Wrapped(3)
• •(3)
• TTF_RenderText_Shaded(3)
• •(3)
• TTF_RenderText_Solid(3)

go read those too, iykyk. 📚💖

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — go render something gorgeous. this lil manual moment came to you from SDL_ttf, version SDL_ttf 3.2.2, and it's filed under TTF_RenderText_LCD(3). mwah, bye! 💋🎀✨