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+unit UTextClasses;
+
+interface
+
+{$I switches.inc}
+
+uses OpenGL12,
+ SDL,
+ UTexture,
+ Classes,
+ dialogs,
+ SDL_ttf,
+ ULog;
+
+{
+// okay i just outline what should be here, so we can create a nice and clean implementation of sdl_ttf
+// based up on this uml: http://jnr.sourceforge.net/fusion_images/www_FRS.png
+// thanks to Bob Pendelton and Koshmaar!
+// (1) let's start with a glyph, this represents one character in a word
+
+type
+ TGlyph = record
+ character : Char; // unsigned char, uchar is something else in delphi
+ glyphsSolid[8] : GlyphTexture; // fast, but not that
+ glyphsBlended[8] : GlyphTexture; // slower than solid, but it look's more pretty
+
+//this class has a method, which should be a deconstructor (mog is on his way to understand the principles of oop :P)
+ deconstructor procedure ReleaseTextures();
+end;
+
+// (2) okay, we now need the stuff that's even beneath this glyph - we're right at the birth of text in here :P
+
+ GlyphTexture = record
+ textureID : GLuint; // we need this for caching the letters, if the texture wasn't created before create it, should be very fast because of this one
+ width,
+ height : Cardinal;
+ charWidth,
+ charHeight : Integer;
+ advance : Integer; // don't know yet for what this one is
+}
+
+{
+// after the glyph is done, we now start to build whole words - this one is pretty important, and does most of the work we need
+ TGlyphsContainer = record
+ glyphs array of TGlyph;
+ FontName array of string;
+ refCount : uChar; // unsigned char, uchar is something else in delphi
+ font : PTTF_font;
+ size,
+ lineSkip : Cardinal; // vertical distance between multi line text output
+ descent : Integer;
+
+
+
+}
+
+
+implementation
+
+end.