nSDL_CustomFonts enable you to use your own fonts, at the size you wish.




HOW TO USE

1. Create your font.
It should be a picture containing 16 characters a row, and so 16 characters a column.
The picture must have a 1-pixel border, and a margin of 2 pixels between each character (horizontally and vertically).
See the pictures in the folder "images" for an example.
The utilitary software "FontGridCreator" creates one grid at the specified size ; you just have to draw your characters into the grid.

2. Convert your image-font.
Use the ImageToFont convertor tool I made for windows.
Just open your picture with the "Select File" button, check if the width/height of your character has been well-detected
by the program (if not, perhaps your image format is wrong, you miss a border or margin).
Then click on the button "Convert", copy the text output and paste it into a .h file.

3. Use 'nSDL_CustomFonts.c' functions.
Copy the two files "nSDL_CustomFonts.c" and "nSDL_CustomFonts.h" in your program directory.
Include "nSDL_CustomFonts.h" and then use the functions you need to.






FUNCTIONS OF 'nSDL_CustomFonts.c'

1. nSDL_Font *nSDL_LoadCustomFont(unsigned char *fontChars, Uint8 r, Uint8 g, Uint8 b);
To use whenever you need to load a custom font.

2. nSDL_Font *nSDL_LoadNumericFont(unsigned char *fontChars, Uint8 r, Uint8 g, Uint8 b);
To use whenever you need to load a custom font with only the 10 figure caracters defined.


3. int nSDL_DrawStringCF(SDL_Surface *surface, nSDL_Font *font, int x, int y, const char *format, ...);
To use instead of "nSDL_DrawString" if your font's height is different of 8.


4. int nSDL_GetStringHeightCF(nSDL_Font *font, const char *s);
To use instead of nSDL_GetStringHeight" if your font's height is different of 8.



EXAMPLE
See the files into the folder example.