text_height(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ text_height — like, the height of a font, bestie ✨

okay so real quick, this one lives in the Allegro manual (section 3, the library-call girlies 💅), and it's genuinely one of the most useful little functions you'll ever meet. no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

text_height — returns the height of a font in pixels. part of the Allegro game programming library, and yes she's iconic for it.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int text_height(const FONT *f)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically: she hands you back the height (in pixels, obviously 💅) of whatever font you point her at. that's it. that's the whole vibe. one number, zero drama.

like, say you've got a font and you need to know how tall it's gonna render so you can size a bitmap around it — this is literally the function for that. example time, watch:

int height = text_height(font);
...
bmp = create_bitmap(width, height);

see how she slotted height straight into create_bitmap? that's the whole point. main character energy fr fr. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

ngl if you're measuring text and you don't check both text_height and text_length, that's a vibe check you're failing. 😭

okay bye ily, this page came to you from Allegro, version 4.4.3 — and text_height(3) says mwah, go build something cute 💜🌸🧚

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