TTF_Direction(3type)

📦 version 3.2.2, in debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 NAME 🌸

TTF_Direction — the direction flags, bestie. It's a lil' enum that tells your text which way to go, and it lives in the SDL_ttf3 DATATYPES squad 💅

🎀 HEADER FILE 🎀

It's defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h, so that's the file you're gonna wanna have pulled up, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

typedef enum TTF_Direction
{
  TTF_DIRECTION_INVALID = 0,
  TTF_DIRECTION_LTR = 4,        /**< Left to Right */
  TTF_DIRECTION_RTL,            /**< Right to Left */
  TTF_DIRECTION_TTB,            /**< Top to Bottom */
  TTF_DIRECTION_BTT             /**< Bottom to Top */
} TTF_Direction;

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the tea, bestie: the values in this enum are specifically chosen to match hb_direction_t from HarfBuzz. Like, on purpose. Deliberately. So if you've been hanging out in HarfBuzz land, these numbers are gonna feel extremely familiar and that's the whole point 🫶

Here's the HarfBuzz reference it's matching, preserved in all its chaotic glory:

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And the values themselves, for the visual learners 👑:

  • TTF_DIRECTION_INVALID = 0 — not a direction, it's giving "no thanks" 💀 this is your zero, your nothing, your invalid vibe.
  • TTF_DIRECTION_LTR = 4 — Left to Right. The classic. The default-flavored one. Very "English essay" of it ✨
  • TTF_DIRECTION_RTL — Right to Left. It's giving Arabic, Hebrew, absolute icon behavior 🌸
  • TTF_DIRECTION_TTB — Top to Bottom. Vertical. Stacked. Main character energy going downward 💅
  • TTF_DIRECTION_BTT — Bottom to Top. Vertical, but make it ascending. Going up, literally 🌈
Heads up bestie: TTF_DIRECTION_LTR is explicitly pinned to 4, and TTF_DIRECTION_INVALID is pinned to 0. The other three don't have a value written out, so don't go memorizing numbers — just use the names, fr fr.

🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

This enum has been serving looks since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. Before that? She simply did not exist. Periodt.

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

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