Text and graphics

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porky11
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Text and graphics

Post by porky11 » Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:53 pm

I want to make a lib for drawing text-boxes,
It would be good if a text-line automatically split into multiple strings, that no string is longer than a box.
(such a function may be complicated, if the length of a char is
Are there alredy types of libraries for this?
or is there a graphic-lib that can use (complex, customizable) text-boxes by default and draw pictures
i currently use lispbuilder-sdl (without opengl, only 2d), but I don't think, this is a good choice, because freedom and there already is sdl2, (and lispbuilder-sd has some errors) but I often don't want to learn new things, if there already is something, that works and if I'm not sure, if the new thing really is better.

nuntius
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Re: Text and graphics

Post by nuntius » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:22 pm


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