Text rendering routines¶

class sdl2.ext.BitmapFont(surface : Sprite, size : iterable[, mapping=None)¶

A bitmap graphics to character mapping. The BitmapFont class uses an image surface to find and render font character glyphs for text. It requires a mapping table, which denotes the characters available on the image.

The mapping table is a list of strings, where each string reflects a line of characters on the image. Each character within each line has the same size as specified by the size argument.

A typical mapping table might look like

[ '0123456789',
  'ABCDEFGHIJ',
  'KLMNOPQRST',
  'UVWXYZ    ',
  'abcdefghij',
  'klmnopqrst',
  'uvwxyz    ',
  ',;.:!?+-()' ]

surface¶: The sdl2.SDL_Surface containing the character bitmaps.

offsets¶: A dict containing the character offsets on the surface.

mapping¶: The character mapping table, a list of strings.

size¶: The size of an individual glyph bitmap on the font.

render(text : string[, bpp=None]) → Sprite¶: Renders the passed text on a new Sprite and returns it. If no explicit bpp are provided, the bpp settings of the surface are used.

render_on(surface : Sprite, text : string[, offset=(0, 0)]) -> (int, int, int, int)¶: Renders a text on the passed sprite, starting at a specific offset. The top-left start position of the text will be the passed offset and a 4-value tuple with the changed area will be returned.

contains(c : string) → bool¶: Checks, whether a certain character exists in the font.

can_render(text : string) → bool¶: Checks, whether all characters in the passed text can be rendered.

class sdl2.ext.FontManager(font_path : str[, alias=None[, size=16[, color=Color(255, 255, 255)[, bg_color=Color(0, 0, 0)[, index=0]]]]])¶

Manage fonts and rendering of text.

One font path must be given to initialise the FontManager. default_font will be set to this font. size is the default font size in pixels. color and bg_color will give the FontManager a default color. index will select a specific font face from a file containing multiple font faces. The first face is always at index 0. It can be used for TTC (TrueType Font Collection) fonts.

bg_color¶: The sdl2.ext.Color to be used as background color.

color¶: The sdl2.ext.Color to be used for rendering text.

default_font¶: Returns the name of the current default font being used by the FontManager. On assigning default_font, the value must be a loaded font alias.

size¶: The default font size in pixels.

add(font_path : str[, alias=None[, size=None[, index=0]]])) → sdl2.sdlttf.TTF_Font¶: Add a font to the FontManager. alias is by default the font name, any other name can be passed, size is the font size in pixels and defaults to size. index selects a specific font face from a TTC (TrueType Font Collection) file. Returns the font pointer stored in fonts.

close()¶: Closes all fonts used by the FontManager.

render(text : str[, alias=None[, size=None[, width=None[, color=None[, bg_color=None[, **kwargs]]]]]]) → sdl2.SDL_Surface¶: Renders text to a surface. This method uses the font designated by the passed alias or, if alias is omitted, by the set default_font. A size can be passed even if the font was not loaded with this size. A width can be given for automatic line wrapping. If no bg_color or color are given, it will default to the FontManager’s bg_color and color.