Synopsis #

This is a routine that displays a text in small (glyph) font on the screen.

Definition #

static const short empty[18] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
int PrintMiniFix(int x, int y, const char *Msg, const int flags, const short color, const short bcolor){
    int i = 0, dx;
    unsigned short width;
    void *p;

   while ( Msg[i] ){
      p = GetMiniGlyphPtr( Msg[i], &width );
      dx = ( 12 - width ) / 2;
      if ( dx > 0 ) {
         PrintMiniGlyph( x, y, (void*)empty, flags, dx, 0, 0, 0, 0, color, bcolor, 0 );
      }else dx = 0;
      PrintMiniGlyph( x+dx, y, p, flags, width, 0, 0, 0, 0, color, bcolor, 0 );
      if ( width+dx < 12 ){
         PrintMiniGlyph( x+width+dx, y, (void*)empty, flags, 12-width-dx, 0, 0, 0, 0, color, bcolor, 0 );
      }
      x += 12;
      i++;
   }
   return x;
}

Inputs #

• int x: X-coordinate of top-left of text
• int y: Y-coordinate of top-left of text
• const char* Msg: string to display
• const int flags:

• const short color: Text foreground color
• const short bcolor: Text background color

Outputs #

Small font string on-screen.

Comments #

• Flags come from an old version of disp_tools.hpp. No further information on them is known.
• Without PMF_ALLOW_STATUSAREA, the syscall will try to draw the text even with a negative y value, but it will clip as though the top bar was shown, regardless of whether that top bar is actually present or not.

Usage Example #

PrintMiniFix(0, 175,
         "Oh look a string at the bottom of the screen.",
         0, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLACK);