While the tutorial uses a straight font name, on Mac OS X the font path must be fully specified. So if you want to use Arial, the string should be "/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf".
A lot prettier fonts than the default in Allegro 4.x. :)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
TrueType fonts in Allegro 5 and Mac OS X
I tried the font tutorial, but couldn't run it due to a failed assertion. Despite linking against liballegro_font.dylib and liballegro_ttf.dylib with the linker flags -lallegro_font and -lallegro_ttf, and subsequent success in compilation, the executable immediately quits with an "Abort trap":
While the tutorial uses a straight font name, on Mac OS X the font path must be fully specified. So if you want to use Arial, the string should be "/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf".
A lot prettier fonts than the default in Allegro 4.x. :)
While the tutorial uses a straight font name, on Mac OS X the font path must be fully specified. So if you want to use Arial, the string should be "/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf".
A lot prettier fonts than the default in Allegro 4.x. :)
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