NAME¶

TTF_RenderText_Shaded - Render UTF-8 text at high quality to a new 8-bit surface.

HEADER FILE¶

Defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h

SYNOPSIS¶

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

SDL_Surface * TTF_RenderText_Shaded(TTF_Font *font, const char *text, size_t length, SDL_Color fg, SDL_Color bg);

DESCRIPTION¶

This function will allocate a new 8-bit, palettized surface. The surface's 0 pixel will be the specified background color, while other pixels have varying degrees of the foreground color. This function returns the new surface, or NULL if there was an error.

This will not word-wrap the string; you'll get a surface with a single line of text, as long as the string requires. You can use

TTF_RenderText_Shaded_Wrapped () instead if you need to wrap the output to multiple lines.

This will not wrap on newline characters.

You can render at other quality levels with

TTF_RenderText_Solid ,

TTF_RenderText_Blended , and

TTF_RenderText_LCD .

FUNCTION PARAMETERS¶

font

the font to render with.

text

text to render, in UTF-8 encoding.

length

the length of the text, in bytes, or 0 for null terminated text.

fg

the foreground color for the text.

bg

the background color for the text.

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns a new 8-bit, palettized surface, or NULL if there was an error.

THREAD SAFETY¶

This function should be called on the thread that created the font.

AVAILABILITY¶

This function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0.

SEE ALSO¶

•(3), TTF_RenderText_Blended(3), •(3), TTF_RenderText_LCD(3), •(3), TTF_RenderText_Shaded_Wrapped(3), •(3), TTF_RenderText_Solid(3)