RichText

Rich text class for SFML2. Allows the user to draw lines of text with different styles and colors.

License

This code is licensed under public domain.

Author

• Cristian Pallarés - Original code
• Lukas Dürrenberger - Conversion to the new SFML2 API

How to use

1. Include the header and the source to your project.
2. Link to SFML2 (obviously :P!).

Repository

You can get the current development version from the git repository.

Example

#include "RichText.hpp"
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
 
int main()
{
  sfe::RichText text;
  text << sf::Text::Bold << sf::Color::Cyan << "This"
    << sf::Text::Italic << sf::Color::White << " is cool "
    << sf::Text::Regular << sf::Color::Green << "mate"
    << sf::Color::White << ". "
    << sf::Text::Underlined << "I wish I could lick it!";
 
  text.setCharacterSize(25);
  text.setPosition(400, 300);
  text.setOrigin(text.getWidth()/2.f, text.getHeight()/2.f);
 
  sf::RenderWindow window;
  window.create(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Rich text");
 
  while(window.isOpen())
  {
    sf::Event event;
    while(window.pollEvent(event))
    {
      if(event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
        window.close();
    }
 
    window.clear();
    window.draw(text);
    window.display();
  }
}