Displaying Text for a Menu - examples?

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HolgiB
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Displaying Text for a Menu - examples?

Post by HolgiB »

Hi,

I am a noob in PSP programming but managed already to get some things to work. My plan is to develop a SID Player (Program which play Commodore 64 Sound files). I know there are already a few shells outside, that can do the job but its fun programmind something. It already plays music and I integrated a very simply file-selection.

The next step is to work on the GUI. I am currently using SDL for audio output. So it would be possible to use SDL functions or what comes with the SDK.

What I need is to display text, where the active line (File to select) is hightlighted. Maybe in future some graphics (bitmaps, simple visualisation).

In the SDK there is a sprite based text example and is the only thing I found which is not much too complex. But I was wondering if using sprites is really a good method to display text. Are there any other ways?

Anybody knows another good example?

--Holger
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Post by dot_blank »

use the freetype lib
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HolgiB
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Post by HolgiB »

Just compiled it. Any PSP-examples with freetype?

Dont forget, I am a noob :-)

--Holger
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