hgeTTF2

HGE TTF supported. It's not coded by me. Someone seems not support it any more, so I hold it on GITHUB.

You can find the origin here.

Description

hgeTTF v2.0 has improved greatly since v1.0.

Bugs have been fixed.

Performance has been improved a significant amount.

hgeTTF turned into sfmlTTF when I switched to SFML.

But I ported it back to HGE for you HGEers.

You do not need anything except hge+hgehelp to use the library.

It is already linked with FreeType2.

Changes

Everything is now in the hgeTTF namespace.

No more singletons.

Features

• UNICODE support (via wstring/wchar_t)
• Uses FreeType2
• Uses hgeSprite for rotations, coloring, etc
• Uses kerning for fonts that support it
• Very easy to use
• Extremely fast
• Cache system

Usage

Add the include/lib directories to your project.

• Includes: hgeTTF/include
• Libs: hgeTTF/lib
• Link with the library: hgeTTF_Debug.lib or hgeTTF_Release.lib

In your code you'll need to:

1. Init hgeTTF::FontManager
2. Load the font through the manager
3. Draw

Here's an example:

hgeTTF::FontManager FontMgr;
FontMgr.Initialize();
FontMgr.loadFont("Font.ttf");
hgeTTF::Font* Font = FontMgr.getFont("Font.ttf");
Font->setSize(22);
Font->drawString(L"Test", 10, 50);
Font->printf(100, 100, L".2f", 2.0f);

First you need a hgeTTF::FontManager.

You must initialize this manager with Initialize(). If it is already initialized, this has no effect.

Then you use the manager to load a font - loadFont(Filename).

Then get the font from the manager using the filename - getFont(Filename).

Here we didn't check any return values, just to keep things simple.

Docs

There's no real documentation but you don't really need any.

Just view the header files.

Or hopefully you have some form of code completion (like VisualAssist).

Notes

• setHotSpot is relative. So 0.5,0.5 is the center.
• Compiled under VS2008 and includes those project files.

Author

dewyatt @ HGE Forum