get_font_range_end(3alleg4)

✨ get_font_range_end — bestie edition ✨

okay so you're in the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4, and today's main character is get_font_range_end(3alleg4). yes, we're doing font internals. it's giving lowkey iconic, ngl 💅

💖 NAME 💖

get_font_range_end — returns the last character of a character range in a font. it's part of the Allegro game programming library, bestie 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int get_font_range_end(FONT *f, int range)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function lets you find out the index to the last character of a character range for a font. literally what it says on the tin 🫶

you can pass -1 for the range parameter if you want to know the start of the whole font range. or, alternatively, pass a number from 0 to (but not including) get_font_ranges(f) to get the start of a specific character range in the font. pick your fighter, both are valid ✨

👑 real talk though: you should check the start and end of all font ranges to see if a specific character is actually available in the font. not all characters in the range returned by get_font_range_begin(f, -1) and get_font_range_end(f, -1) need to be available! like… the range is the vibe, not the guest list 💀

example time, as promised:

printf("The font has a character range of %d - %d\n",
       get_font_range_begin(font, -1),
       get_font_range_end(font, -1));

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

returns the last character in the font range, or -1 if that information is not available. sometimes the answer is just no 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• get_font_ranges(3alleg4)
• get_font_range_begin(3alleg4)
• transpose_font(3alleg4)

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 🍓 go forth and query your font ranges with main character energy 💜

— xoxo, the Allegro girlies, version 4.4.3, signing off 💖✨🎀 (the original page was stamped get_font_range_end(3alleg4), and now you know the whole thing, fr fr)