text_length(3)

✨ text_length(3) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual 💖 this one's called text_length and it's literally the glow-up you need when you're out here trying to figure out how WIDE your text is gonna be. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

text_length</ppurple> — returns the length of a string in pixels. it's part of the Allegro game programming library, iykyk 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int text_length(const FONT *f, const char *str);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. it returns the length — in pixels — of a string, measured in the font you picked. that's it. that's the whole vibe. periodt. 👑

here's the moment you've been waiting for, an actual example:

int width = text_length(font, "I love spam");
...
bmp = create_bitmap(width, height);

the way that just WORKS 😭 you get the width, you make the bitmap, you slay. main character energy fr fr.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• text_height(3)
• ex12bit(3)
• exmidi(3)
• expat(3)
• exunicod(3)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this one came to you from the Allegro girlies, version 4.4.3 ✨💖 go forth and measure your strings, you absolute icon 🎀🦋💅