Spacing error

[ineed.help]

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[Ixrec]

What you're after is called "kerning".  The term "line spacing" refers to the vertical space between lines.

You can access a font's kerning information through sf::Font::getKerning().


But all that aside, why not use sf::Text?  You don't appear to be doing anything it doesn't support.

[math1992]

Also rather than using

xPos += 12;

, the glyph class provide an advance value for each glyph.

[ineed.help]

I don't think I understand. Aside from me using incorrect terminology, what exactly am I doing wrong?

[Ixrec]

You aren't using sf::Font::getKerning() or sf::Glyph::advance.  That's all.

If you don't know what those things mean then read the documentation and/or google some introductions to font metrics.


And again, why not just use sf::Text?  Drawing text correctly is complicated and error-prone, so let SFML do it for you if you don't need anything special.

[ineed.help]

I am using multiple sf::Text instances because I am going to add something (such as sf::sleep) to make the text show one letter at a time.

I have read the documentation and I still don't understand - do you think you could explain it to me?

[dabbertorres]

Why not use one sf::Text and just add a letter to it every few ms? That way you draw MUCH less.

[ineed.help]

Why not use one sf::Text and just add a letter to it every few ms? That way you draw MUCH less.

It doesn't work when I'm using colors and text styles.

[Ixrec]

I have read the documentation and I still don't understand - do you think you could explain it to me?

If you ask some more specific questions, yes.  Any general explanation I try to write will be no different from copy-pasting the documentation.


When you say "using colors and text styles", how complicated are we talking?  It's likely you can still do a lot better than separate sf::Texts for every letter.

For the record, there's no point whatsoever in using an sf::Text for a single letter.  It's exactly the same as an Sprite at that point.  The big benefit of sf::Text is that it figures out how to position and render all the letters for you so you don't have to deal with individual glyphs.

[ineed.help]

I need every character to have separate color and style data. How can I accomplish that with sf::Sprite instances? I can't see a way to use a glyph for a sprite, so I don't know what to do.

[Ixrec]

sf::Font contains a texture.  sf::Glyph contains a texture rect which corresponds to the glyph's position in that texture once rendered.  The logic in sf::Text that you're essentially duplicating is all about computing a position (though obviously it uses kerning and line spacing and glyph advance and all that stuff).

An sf::Sprite is (very literally) nothing but four vertices, a texture, and a texture rect.


By the way, you can always look at the source code for sf::Text, since you're basically trying to reimplement it.

[Ixrec]

You need to take the height of each glyph into account too.  With sprites the origin is the top left corner, but I believe with text it's the left end of the "baseline" (google it), so "shorter" glyphs need to be moved down.

There are a lot of different font metrics.  And this is just for English.

[ineed.help]

EDIT:
I got it now, thank you very much for your help!

[Laurent]

Removing your first post was a very bad idea. Now nobody can understand what's going on in this discussion. Don't do that again please.

[Syntactic Fructose]

Removing your first post was a very bad idea. Now nobody can understand what's going on in this discussion. Don't do that again please.

you stole the words from my mouth. It's a bummer when questions like these show up in google searches and suddenly the post is empty.