glutStrokeHeight - Man Page

OpenGLUT - fonts

#include <openglut.h>

GLfloat
glutStrokeHeight(void *fontID);

A GLUT stroked font identifier.

This function reports the height of a font, given by

as a global characteristic of that font.

Returns 0 if

is invalid.

Does


not
report the height used by individual characters. This may limit its usefulness; perhaps we should change it? (And/or add a new function.)

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

glutStrokeCharacter(3) glutStrokeString(3) glutStrokeWidth(3) glutStrokeLength(3) glutBitmapHeight(3)

glutBitmapHeight(3), glutStrokeCharacter(3), glutStrokeLength(3), glutStrokeString(3).