Re: SDL::TTFont troubles
[email protected] (Guillaume Cottenceau)
| Newsgroups | perl.sdl.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first post on this list, so take it easy on me k? ;-) > > > Anyway, I updated my SDL Perl install (and dependencies) last night; > everything save SDL::TTFont seems to working great... > > Whenever I try to create an SDL::TTFont object, for example with: > my $title = new SDL::TTFont(-name => "./Vera.ttf", -size => 18); > > my app dies and I get this error: > TTF error at TTFSizeText: > TTF error That may not be a direct answer to your problem, but in my SDL-based program I have found that SDL_ttf was a too limited approach: it cannot use directly system fonts, and it is not enough i18n aware (doesn't render properly right to left languages and languages needing ligatures); and IIRC it is even not able to word wrap. As a consequence, I now happily use SDL_Pango (even if that project is dead, it works more or less properly).. HTH -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://zarb.org/~gc/