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+unit UTextClasses;
+
+interface
+
+{$I switches.inc}
+
+uses
+  gl,
+  SDL,
+  UTexture,
+  Classes,
+//  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.