al_load_ttf_font_stretch(3alleg5)

💖 al_load_ttf_font_stretch 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro 5 reference manual (that's the 3alleg5 situation, iykyk) and it's literally the glow-up version of loading a TTF font — except you get to pick your width AND your height separately instead of squishing everything into one single size. main character energy fr fr 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_ttf.h>

ALLEGRO_FONT *al_load_ttf_font_stretch(char const *filename, int w, int h,
   int flags)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically it's giving al_load_ttf_font(3alleg5), but make it custom. The only difference? Instead of handing over one lil size parameter, you pass separate width and height parameters. That's the whole vibe. 💅

Now here's the tea on how the stretching actually works:

• If the height is a positive value, and the width is zero or positive, then the font gets stretched according to those parameters. slay. 🔥
• > ⚠️ but bestie, listen — the width must NOT be negative if the height is positive. that combo is not it.

And just like its sibling al_load_ttf_font(3alleg5), the height can be a negative value, which means "hey, this is the total height in pixels." Iconic. But the catch:

• If the height is negative, then the width must also be negative, or zero. no exceptions, no cap. 🙈

And when do you just get nothing back? When it returns NULL:

• if the height is positive while the width is negative 😭
• or if the height is negative while the width is positive 💀

Those two combos are the vibe check you fail. Don't do them.

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.0.6, 5.1.0 — she's been around a minute, lowkey a legend 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_load_ttf_font(3alleg5)
• al_load_ttf_font_stretch_f(3alleg5)

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k bye bestie, go stretch some fonts and eat 🍓 — this was the Allegro reference manual, al_load_ttf_font_stretch(3alleg5), and yes the whole thing is officially that girl 💖✨