Pixelated text

[war_man333]

I'd like an option for text/fonts to be pixelated.
Currently, SFML will always anti-aliase text.
This is how it should be:

This is how it is:

In order to fix this, the source code must be altered, as explained on page two of this thread:
http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=17166.0

[eXpl0it3r]

I think it's a relative important feature, since a lot of games make use of pixelated fonts. If it can be added to SFML 2.x as an API extension, we should probably add it and maybe reevaluate the API design for SFML 3.0.

[Laurent]

To clarify a few points:

- it can't be done as an extension, the internals of sf::Font have to be changed to implement this feature

- pixelated fonts already work perfectly in most cases, thanks the latest changes in SFML 2.2; this case is special because the text is stretched

- if this feature was implemented, it would also work fine on fonts that are not natively pixelated

- it has to be an additional argument to the load functions of sf::Font, it can't be changed after the glyphs are rasterized

[FRex]

- it has to be an additional argument to the load functions of sf::Font, it can't be changed after the glyphs are rasterized

Does it really? Can't all the contents of m_pages be thrown out instead and allowed to reload naturally in getGlyph?

[Ixrec]

It could also be an optional constructor argument.

[Laurent]

Does it really? Can't all the contents of m_pages be thrown out instead and allowed to reload naturally in getGlyph?

That would work, yes.

[FRex]

It seems good enough, existing sf::Text instances would break (unless there is some dirtyness counter implemented) but they already do when sf::Font is reloaded (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=14019.msg98183#msg98183) so using reloading to set pixelization would break them anyway.