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Littice • today at 12:16 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Immediate-mode in pure C is a nice constraint. how does it handle text rendering, do you bring your own atlas or is there something built in? Thats usually the part that balloons the dependency footprint.

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flohofwoe • today at 4:26 PM

The demo uses a simple prebuilt fixed-size font atlas texture and renders the entire UI (including character quads) via batched glDrawElements calls (one draw call per clip-rect).

But the way how text rendering is delegated to the user is quite flexible, microui basically calls these three user-provided functions:

    int r_get_text_height(void)
    int r_get_text_width(const char* text, int len);
    void r_draw_text(const char* text, mu_Vec2 pos, mu_Color color);
...how r_draw_text() is implemented is then entirely up to you.
dvhh • today at 3:05 PM

it does not, it basically delegate that part to lower level library for which you have to write the glue code for, there is an example for SDL.