Re: [AD] monochrome 8x8 builtin font + upscaling algorithm

[Dennis-Busch@xxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks. Attached is a new cumulative patch (includes documentation 
update and previous patch and int* to const int* change).

I had to strip some comments from the code itself, so the doc 
generator could find the function signatures.

Dennis Busch
d_busch@xxxxxxxxxx

On 9 Jul 2012 at 12:11, allefant wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, <Dennis-Busch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, it seems we agree/know what we want for the builtin bitmap font
> > now.
> >
> > Attached is a patch which only adds the simple, unscaled 8x8 font
> > sheet creation to the font addon and includes a small modification to
> > ex_font to demonstrate usage. No scaling is performed and all scaling
> > code has been removed.
> >
> > With this patch (keeping flexibility as previously discussed in mind)
> > there are three new functions in the font addon:
> >
> > ALLEGRO_BITMAP *al_create_builtin_font_sheet(void);
> >
> > int *, al_get_builtin_font_sheet_ranges(void);
> >
> > int, al_get_builtin_font_sheet_ranges_count(void);
> >
> >
> > The two extra functions are necessary, so that users always have the
> > correct character range information for their own
> > al_grab_font_from_bitmap call after manipulating(scaling, recoloring,
> > etc) the plain font sheet bitmap.
> >
> > Also, with these, future extensions (more characters, more ranges) to
> > the builtin font data can be made without breaking user code.
> >
> >
> Thanks, I'll apply it. I'll change the "int *" return to "int const *"
> though as a hint for the user not to free it.
> 
> 
> > Which files to I need to edit to add documentation for those
> > functions?
> >
> >
> docs/src/refman/font.txt
> 
> Ok, I'll wait until there's also documentation then.


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