textprintf_ex(3alleg4)

💖 textprintf_ex — the Allegro manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from the Allegro manual and it's called textprintf_ex — it's giving "I print formatted strings onto your bitmap" energy and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

textprintf_ex — formatted output of a string 🫶 (from the Allegro game programming library, if the vibe check didn't already tell you)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

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

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, this is formatted text output — you hand it a printf() style format string and it does its lil magic and draws the result. that's the whole gig. slay. 💅

but bestie, listen — there's an internal limitation lowkey lurking here: this function can't be used for extremely long texts. 😭 it's not personal, it's just built that way.

and the way that you can fix it if you ever hit that ceiling?? you can work around it by using uszprintf() together with textout_ex(), because those two don't have any such limit. no cap. ✨

example time, because seeing it hits different:

int player_score;
...
textprintf_ex(screen, font, 10, 10, makecol(255, 100, 200),
              -1, "Score: %d", player_score);

main character energy right there ngl 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

like obviously go read these too, they're the friend group:

• font(3alleg4)
• textout_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_centre_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_right_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_justify_ex(3alleg4)
• text_height(3alleg4)
• text_length(3alleg4)
• uszprintf(3alleg4)

💀 quick reminder before you go: the long-text thing is real. if your string is extremely long, textprintf_ex is not the one — go the uszprintf() + textout_ex() route. periodt.

and that's the page!! 🎀 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, dated for textprintf_ex(3alleg4) — mwah, hope that helped bestie, go format some strings 💖✨🌈