Scalable Screen Font: Difference between revisions

Designed specially for OS consoles, has only one function. It can render unscaled bitmap fonts directly to the framebuffer. Has absolutely no dependencies, and compiles to less than two kilobytes of code.

 

#include <ssfn.h>

 

ssfn_dst.ptr = 0xE0000000; /* framebuffer address and bytes per line */

ssfn_dst.p = 4096;

ssfn_dst.bg = 0;

ssfn_dst.x = 100; /* coordinates to draw to */

ssfn_putc('l');

ssfn_putc('o');

 

== Normal Renderer ==

There's another for user space applications. This one can render all three types of fonts, supports gzip compressed fonts, it can scale, anti-alias and kern glyphs. Has minimal libc dependencies (memset, memcmp, realloc, free) and compiles to about 28 kilobytes of code. (Just for completeness, you can compile it in total dependency-free mode if you define SSFN_MAXLINES, but then there'll be no internal glyph cache and you must provide inflated fonts only to ssfn_load().)

 

#define SSFN_IMPLEMENTATION /* use the normal renderer implementation */

#include <ssfn.h>

/* free resources */

ssfn_free(&ctx); /* free the renderer context's internal buffers */

The renderer takes care of the font direction, it uses horizontal or vertical alignment automatically. It cannot determine right-to-left though, for that you'll need

a minimal BiDi state machine too. That has to be implemented in the text renderer (or text shaping library) that's built on top of the low level rasterizer. The [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ algorithm to properly display bidirectional texts] is specified by UNICODE. But once you have decided that you need to draw a glyph in right-to-left direction, just pass SSFN_STYLE_RTL to ssfn_select().

 

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