glutBitmapHeight (3) Linux Manual Page

glutBitmapHeight – Return the height of a given font, in pixels.

Library

OpenGLUT – bitmapfont

Synopsis

In openglut.h Ft int Fn glutBitmapHeight void *font

Parameters

Bf Em
 font Ef
    A bitmapped font identifier.

Description

Return the line-to-line vertical spacing (in pixels) between lines of a bitmapped Bf Sy
 font. Ef
 

Returns 0 if Bf Sy
 font Ef
 is invalid.

Caveats

Does Bf Li
 not Ef
  report the height used by individual characters.  This may limit its usefulness.  (Compare with other font-metric queries.)

Todo

We have discussed adding a "font descender" query. We should go ahead and do it.

See Also

glutBitmapCharacter(3) glutBitmapString(3) glutBitmapWidth(3) glutBitmapLength(3) glutStrokeHeight(3)