From: "Damian Yerrick" <Damian DOT E DOT Yerrick AT rose-hulman DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: allegro textout
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:49:01 -0500
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> guthrie wrote:
>
> > how can I , if even possible , print a string or char array out to the
> > screen using the textout  or textout_centre allegro functions?
> >

Fred Backman <fredrick DOT backman AT pmail DOT net> wrote in message
news:37B14F14 DOT 4EEBF047 AT pmail DOT net...
> As always, there's many ways to do it, but try something like the
following:
>
> char foo[32];   // Max. 32 characters
>
> sprintf(foo, "Parrot ate a cracker!");
> textout(screen, font, foo, 300, 125, color1);
>
> Then it's up to you to put anything into foo, as long as length < 32.
Another
> sample:
>
> sprintf(foo, "Parrot ate %d crackers!", ncrackers);
> textout(screen, font, foo, 300, 125, color1);
>
>
> Fred Backman,
> Lead Wizard
> Binary Spells
> www.binaryspells.com

Allegro has something even simpler: textprintf().
void textprintf(BITMAP *bmp, FONT *theFont, int x, int y, int color, char
*format, ...);
Structure the format string as you would for printf(). Common call:
textprintf(screen, font, 0, 192, 15, "Score: %6d", score);

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