textprintf_centre_ex(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 textprintf_centre_ex — the Allegro manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, we're in the Allegro game programming library manual, and today's main character is textprintf_centre_ex. she prints formatted text. she centres it. she slays. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

textprintf_centre_ex — formatted centered output of a string, from the Allegro game programming library 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

void textprintf_centre_ex(BITMAP *bmp, const FONT *f, int x, int y, int
color, int bg, const char *fmt, ...);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so. this one is literally textprintf_ex()'s cooler twin — same energy, but she treats the x coordinate as the centre of the string instead of the left edge. main character positioning only, no cap 👑

lowkey important though: this function shares the text length limitation of textprintf_ex(). so like, know that going in, bestie. don't say I didn't warn you 🙈

here's the vibe in action:

textprintf_centre_ex(screen, font, SCREEN_W / 2, 120,
                     makecol(0, 100, 243), -1,
                     "Your best score so far was %d!",
                     total_max_points);

the way that SCREEN_W / 2 just drops your text dead centre... obsessed. genuinely. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

iykyk, go read those next 🫶

Allegro, version 4.4.3 — mwah, that's the whole page babes, textprintf_centre_ex(3) out 💜✨🎀

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