transpose_font(3)

transpose_font – Transposes all characters in a font. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

int transpose_font(FONT *f, int drange)

Description

This function transposes all characters in a font, effectively remapping the font. Example:

FONT *myfont;
FONT *capitals;
...
    /* Create a font of only capital letters */
    capitals = extract_font_range(myfont, 'A', 'Z');
/* Now transpose the characters in the font so that they will be used /
/  for the lower case letters a-z */
transpose_font(capitals, ‘a’ - ‘A’);
textout_ex(screen, capitals, "allcaps",
100, 100, makecol(255, 255, 255), 0);

Return Value

Returns 0 on success, -1 on failure.

See Also

get_font_range_begin(3), get_font_range_end(3), merge_fonts(3), extract_font_range(3)