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Feature requests / String sub rectangle

« on: August 28, 2009, 09:24:15 pm »

Hi,

thank you very much for the answer!  I'm happy that SFML 2 will handle this and I'll be waiting for it.

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Feature requests / String sub rectangle

« on: August 27, 2009, 08:10:42 pm »

Well, if we'll be able to do that in SFML2, then there isn't any problem.

However, I believe that the first solution (directly drawing the sub rectangle from the string) would be lighter, easier to add, and simpler to use.

Thanks for the answer!

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Feature requests / String sub rectangle

« on: August 27, 2009, 05:44:52 pm »

Hi!

I was using SDL for a long time and I used SDL_TTF.  Later, I installed SFML and I was very happy about it.  I like it a lot and it is much more simpler and strings are better than with SDL_TTF by far.  However, there's one thing I can't do with SFML that I could with SDL_TTF, because it was a big texture rather than small letters textures.  I can't take my string and cut it where I want just to have a part of a letter and the rest of the string or any other sub rectangle.

I think it would be nice to have a function that takes the sub rectangle coordinates and draw a sub part of the string or that return a sf::sprite that I could then sub-rect myself without any problem.

I may have forgot a function that could do that, but I looked for a while in the documentation, and I couldn't find anything.  So, what do you think of my idea?  I won't care if it's a bad suggestion.