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TTF_CreateText

NAME
HEADER FILE
SYNOPSIS
FUNCTION PARAMETERS
RETURN VALUE
THREAD SAFETY
AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO

NAME

TTF_CreateText - Create a text object from UTF-8 text and a text engine.

HEADER FILE

Defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h

SYNOPSIS

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

TTF_Text * TTF_CreateText(TTF_TextEngine *engine, TTF_Font *font, const char *text, size_t length);

FUNCTION PARAMETERS

engine

the text engine to use when creating the text object, may be NULL.

font

the font to render with.

text

the text to use, in UTF-8 encoding.

length

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

RETURN VALUE

( TTF_Text
*) Returns a TTF_Text
object or NULL on failure; call SDL_GetError() for more information.

THREAD SAFETY

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

AVAILABILITY

This function is available since SDL_ttf 3.0.0.

SEE ALSO

(3), TTF_DestroyText (3)