glutbitmapheight(3) - Linux man page

Name

glutBitmapHeight - Return the height of a given font, in pixels.

Library

OpenGLUT - bitmapfont

Synopsis

#include <openglut.h>

int

glutBitmapHeight(void *font);

Parameters

font A bitmapped font identifier.

Description

Return the line-to-line vertical spacing (in pixels) between lines of a bitmapped font.

Returns 0 if font is invalid.

Caveats

Does not report the height used by individual characters. This may limit its usefulness. (Compare with other font-metric queries.)

Todo

We have discussed adding a "font descender" query. We should go ahead and do it.

See Also

glutbitmapcharacter(3) glutbitmapstring(3) glutbitmapwidth(3) glutbitmaplength(3) glutstrokeheight(3)

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