Font Functions - The VERGE 3 Manual - VERGE, Free 2d Game Engine

Font Functions

1. There is a predefined, tiny, white, variable-width font built-in to the engine. For any of these font functions, use the font handle 0 (zero) to access this font.

EnableVariableWidth() Turns variable-width mode on for the specified font.

FontHeight() Returns the height of a font

FreeFont() Frees a font that you have previously loaded

LoadFont() Loads a font from an image file and returns a FONT handle to be used by other font functions..

LoadFontEx() Loads a font from an image file and returns a FONT handle to be used by other font functions.. (advanced)

PrintCenter() Prints a center-justified string at the specified coordinates.

PrintRight() Prints a right-justified string with the rightmost point at the given coordinates.

PrintString() Prints a left-justified string at the given coordinates.

SetCharacterWidth() Forces a character in the font to be a specific width.

TextWidth() Returns the width of a string rendered in a specific font.

WrapText() Wraps a string in a certain font to fit a specific width.

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Talkback #1 written by blues_zodiakos on 2004-06-03.

To Center some text horizontally on the screen, you can use the following code.
Example:



// This will center the text "This is a test" in the exact middle of the screen 


TextCenter( "This is a test", 0, ImageHeight(screen)/2 ); 





void TextCenter( string text, int font, int y ) 


{ 


	int x; 





	x = TextWidth(text)/2 + ImageWidth(screen)/2; 


	PrintString(x, y, screen, font, text); 


}

[Edit: added pre-tag -Grue]

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