Per-Font selection of FreeType render mode (monochrome glyph to bitmap)

[nitram_cero]

The change (at Font.cpp):

FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap(&glyphDesc, FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL, 0, 1);

to

FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap(&glyphDesc, FT_RENDER_MODE_MONO, 0, 1);

(with a way to toggle it that fits with the rest of the Font interface)

The reason:
I'm into retro-looking games with big pixels and low color count palettes. I like using SFML2 because it has a really confortable interface, has window init, scaling, rotation, fonts, network, almost everything I need already handled.

Except for antialiasing of fonts. I managed to just change the libraries code but that's no solution and I think it's a missing feature.
Analogously it would be a pain if "setSmooth()" wasn't there to toggle textures anti-aliasing from nearest neighbour (off) to bilinear.

I've attached an image explaining it better (direct link, make sure it's unzoomed/1:1 pixel ratio)...
For both FreeType render modes, there are both No-zoom version and a render-to-texture (RTT) version where my problem is more evident.

Hope you give it a thought
Best regards

-Martín

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[Laurent]

Wow

http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=8523.0
https://github.com/SFML/SFML/issues/254
These are from... earlier today.

But anyway, you didn't search before posting (unless you searched a few days ago and posted only now)

[nitram_cero]

Yes, sorry, I haven't searched again. I was getting the gfx ready for the example.
Even so, that's weird... what a coincidence!

Actually, I requested this exact same thing 3 years ago but then totally forgot about it, hehehe.

(Completly off-topic but I like to mention that is good you updated the network UDP code to use the protocol packet size instead of redundantly sending, and in a different packet, the size... which it wasn't working for non-blocking UDP sockets in SFML1.6)