libwiisprite - HowTo draw on a Sprite?

Hello!

I'm using libwiisprite for my project for rendering the GUI.
Now, i must render some text.
First i thought that i port FreeType, but for that i need to draw on a Sprite directly...

Please Help :)

Or if anyone have another way to draw nice text to the screen, it would be welcome too.
Until now, i used the "textclass", but it can just draw text that looks like DOS and
when i'm making a new font, it just looks bad because of all the spaces...

Hope that you can understand me, my english isn't the best....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2008 11:25PM by stitch.

FreeType has already been ported. Look at the wiki page.
DragonMedia player and missle command use the port.

Currently there is no full text support in the Libwiisprite, usually for a menu, programmers will use an image then use raw2c on it to convert it to a constant array of unsigned chars, then load from buffer like so:

if(image.LoadImage(imageInMemory) != IMG_LOAD_ERROR_NONE)exit(0);

You could go behind the scenes and inject a ttf directly into your program using GX.

thank you vader347, I will look at it :)

Edit:

Mh, i can't get it to work :(

Even DragonMinded's example don't works...

I've pasted the Makefile and the source (it compiles without errors, but on the wii i have a black screen...)

Makefile: [pastebin.com]
C++ file: [pastebin.com]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2008 03:26PM by stitch.

I have already done manual drawing on an already loaded libwiisprite image. It is easy, you just use the protected member variable _pixels and write some encoding code so that you get the texture format right. Feel free to use my code for this, I comes with some misc basic drawing functions.

@henke37

Where can I get your code, I seem to have my own problem.

Well, for most purposes, you don't need to worry about the _pixels property with my code. It's not filled with comments, but the header files should be good enough for people who are good enough programmers to know C++.

It's mixed up with the rest of my code for the wiihttpd project, the svn url is:
[wiiwebserver.svn.sourceforge.net]