Printing to image handle

[Bhsdfa]

I made this small function to create image handles with text and transparency, I use a variation of this in my games for some time now, I figured someone might want to use this in the future.
To run this you'll need the the font used (mouse.ttf), the font name being Mouse Memoirs.





If you have an idea or need help with something feel free to DM me, preferably on Discord.

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'Setting the screen so its possible to go back in the function

Dim Shared MainScreen

MainScreen = _NewImage(550, 650, 32)

Screen MainScreen

_Dest MainScreen

'Dims fonts with different sizes.

Dim Shared FontSizes(1024)

For i = 1 To 1024

    FontSizes(i) = _LoadFont("assets/begs world/mouse.ttf", i, "")

Next

Dim text(20) As Long

text(0) = _NewImage(16, 32, 32)

text(1) = CreateImageText(text(1), "Hello, Welcome to my demo!", 48)

text(2) = CreateImageText(text(2), "This is a demo of my text function", 42)

text(3) = CreateImageText(text(3), "it's possible to do alot of things", 42)

text(4) = CreateImageText(text(4), "Like this!", 90)

text(5) = CreateImageText(text(5), "or this...", 21)

text(6) = CreateImageText(text(6), "I used this in my menu engine and games ", 38)

text(7) = CreateImageText(text(7), "It's pretty flexible too!", 60)

text(8) = CreateImageText(text(8), "You can generate text in real time like this:", 30)

text(9) = CreateImageText(text(9), "!OoOoOoOoOo!", 30) 'This one will change size once in the LOOP

text(10) = CreateImageText(text(10), "Neat, right?", 60)

text(11) = CreateImageText(text(11), "This is the end, bye!", 85)



Intro = _Height + 64

Beep

Do

    Cls: _Limit 60: _KeyClear

    Intro = Intro - 1

    o = 0

    delay = delay - 1

    For i = 1 To 11

        If i = 9 And delay < 0 Then delay = 2: text(9) = CreateImageText(text(9), "!OoOoOoOoOo!", Int(Rnd * 80) + 10) ' The real time generating part, pretty simple.



        ' Line to display the actual size of the images:

        'Line ((_Width / 2) - _Width(text(i)) / 2, Intro + o)-((_Width / 2) + _Width(text(i)) / 2, Intro + o + _Height(text(i))), _RGB32(64, 64, 64), BF



        _PutImage ((_Width / 2) - _Width(text(i)) / 2, Intro + o), text(i) 'Displaying the images in the right place.



        If i <> 9 Then 'This exception is so texts after the 9th don't jitter

            o = o + _Height(text(i))

        Else

            o = o + 100

        End If



    Next

    _Display

Loop While Intro > -700

Beep

System



'This is the function I made.

' Handle is the image you want to create, make sure you do "  Image = CreateImageText(Image, "blabla", 20)  ".

' Why putting Image 2 times? So you don't fill your computer's memory generating a lot of images with the same Handle like in text(9).

Function CreateImageText (Handle As Long, text As String, textsize As Integer) 'Function written by Bhsdfa

    If Handle <> 0 Then _FreeImage Handle ' Making sure the Handle is free.

    If text = "" Then text = " " ' If text = "" it will generate an error

    _Font FontSizes(textsize)

    thx = _PrintWidth(text) 'thx and thy are used to set image resolution.

    thy = _FontHeight(FontSizes(textsize))

    Handleb = _NewImage(thx, thy, 32) 'Why Handleb? For some reason it doesn't work creating the normal Handle, there need to be one more step.

    _Dest Handleb

    _ClearColor _RGB32(0, 0, 0): _PrintMode _KeepBackground: _Font FontSizes(textsize): _PrintString (0, 0), text, Handleb ' Prints to Handleb

    Handle = _NewImage(thx, thy, 32)

    _Dest MainScreen

    _PutImage (0, 0), Handleb, Handle ' From HandleB to normal Handle.

    _Font FontSizes(20) ' Resets the font back to normal, you can switch this in your code to your normal font.

    If Handleb <> 0 Then _FreeImage Handleb ' Frees HandleB to prevent filling up memory.

    CreateImageText = Handle

End Function

[bplus]

Oh nice, I loaded an array of font sizes in my "very simple (vs) GUI" also but skipped making images before printing.