GLUTSTROKEHEIGHT(3)

💖 glutStrokeHeight — bestie, it tells you how TALL a font is 💖

okay so real talk, this one lives in the OpenGLUT fonts girlies club, and it's the glow-up you call when you need the height of a stroked font. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <openglut.h>

GLfloat
glutStrokeHeight(void *fontID);

like, that's it. one function, one arg, one GLfloat coming back at you. iconic behavior honestly. 💅

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• fontID — a GLUT stroked font identifier. yes bestie, it's a void *, we don't make the rules. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the way this works: you hand it a fontID, and it hands you back the height of that font — as a global characteristic of the font itself. like, the whole font's vibe, not any one character's little moment. ✨

And if fontID is invalid? it returns 0. that's it, that's the whole tea. zero. nada. nothing. 💀

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

okay so listen. this does not report the height used by individual characters. which lowkey might limit how useful it is?? 🙈 and the original authors literally wrote, and I quote the vibe: "perhaps we should change it? (And/or add a new function.)" so yeah, even the docs are like... hmm. 😭

not me being the messenger here, but if you were expecting per-character heights, you're not getting them from this one. periodt.

📝 TODO 📝

fr fr, they've discussed adding a "font descender" query. and the energy is very much "we should go ahead and do it." manifesting it for them. 🕯️✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glutStrokeCharacter(3)
• glutStrokeString(3)
• glutStrokeWidth(3)
• glutStrokeLength(3)
• glutBitmapHeight(3)

go read the whole friend group, they're all serving. 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from the OpenGLUT era and the footer is literally just UNDATED and UNTITLED() — like the manpage equivalent of an unsent draft in your notes app. no date, no title, just vibes. 🦋💖 mwah, ily, go draw some strokes. 🌈⭐