gui_font_baseline(3alleg4)

✨ gui_font_baseline ✨

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4 — yes bestie, the Allegro game programming library, we love her 💖 — and today we're talking about one tiny little global variable that fixes one very specific aesthetic problem: the height of your keyboard shortcut underscores. she's small but she's iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

gui_font_baseline — Adjusts the keyboard shortcut underscores height.

Allegro game programming library.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

extern int gui_font_baseline;

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea, bestie: if you set this to a non-zero value, it adjusts the keyboard shortcut underscores so they account for the height of the descenders in your font. 🫶

Like — your little _ under the menu letters? It needs to know how far down your font's descenders (the bits of letters like g, j, p, q, y that dip below the baseline) actually reach, and this variable is how you tell it. Non-zero = yes please, take the descenders into account. Zero = nah, default behaviour. ✨

ngl this is one of those "you'll know when you need it" variables — if your shortcut underscores look like they're vibing in the wrong place, this is the knob. 💅

and that's the whole page, no cap — literally one variable, one job, and she ate. 🍓

sending love from the Allegro girlies, version 4.4.3, mwah 💜 🧚