Sdltty

SDL_tty 0.0.1
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SDL_tty is a very simple library that tries to simulate a primitive
terminal that allows you to print to the screen in much the same way
that you would print to stdout. The usage is like this:

  // Initialize SDL as usual

  // Create the fixed width font
  TTY_Font* font = TTY_CreateFont(temp, 16, 16, 
                                  "\x7f
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?()ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
                                  "[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~");
  // Create the terminal
  TTY* tty = TTY_Create(40, 30, font);

  // Your mainloop
  while(1)
  {
     // print text via
     TTY_printf(tty, "Hello World\n");

     // renderer the terminal to the screen 
     TTY_Blit(tty, screen, 80, 60);

     SDL_Flip(screen);
  }

  TTY_Free(tty);
  TTY_FreeFont(font);

The c64lookalike programm demonstrates some more advanced usage of the library.


Features
========

* can create a primitive terminal for text output
* some primitve support for scrolling 
* support for fixed-width fonts
* support for loading fonts from file as well as directly from code, a
  image to .h converter is provided
* small and meant to be included in your source, not meant to be compiled as
  a real .so/dll library


Webpage/Contact
===============

The latest version is currently available via:

  svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/supertux/trunk/jnrcol/

Question and suggestion should go to:

  Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel/gmx/de>


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