Styled char/text proposition & ideas

CHiPs44 commented 1 year ago

Here is a proposition to implement styled char/text in HAGL.

One can now write text with optionally transparent background and foreground colors and zoom or shrink it.

You can look at https://github.com/CHiPs44/hagl_sdl2/blob/chips44-update-2/demo.c to see an example. Should I make a PR for this project, too?

I know it is something you want to implement for a long time, that's why I make this proposal.

Other ideas:

Make the use of CR or LF to wrap text optional?
Make text wrapping in a bounded box?
Make text scrolling in a bounded box?
Allow use of variable width fonts?

Silly ideas:

Implement bold and/or italic
Interpret ANSI sequences or even Markdown tags
Implement shadowed, greyed out, underlined and strike-through text
...

CHiPs44 commented 1 year ago

Still not ready, checking 1/2/4 bits depth compatibility since blit and scale_blit seems to handle only 8 and 16 bits depth (1 or 2 bytes per pixel), and the last update to master introduced conflicts.

CHiPs44 commented 1 year ago

(resolving a bug with transparent char display...)

CHiPs44 commented 8 months ago

Moved to https://github.com/CHiPs44/hagl_pico_vgaboard/tree/develop/hagl_ext.

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