sprintf(score_str, "Score: %ld", score);
text_surface = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, score_str, (SDL_Color) {255, 255, 255});
Simple task... that drives me crazy (SDL_ttf)
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I've just finished a tetris game, just one litle thing left; showing the current score for the player.
I try to do this with:
text_surface gets the vale NULL! What am I doing wrong? When I print score_str with printf() everything looks like it should.
Thanks in advance.
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Quote:Original post by rip-off
Use TTF_GetError() to tell you why.
OK. Then I get "SDL_UpperBlit: passed a NULL surface". And what does that mean. :S
Quote:Original post by Adam4444Quote:Original post by rip-off
Use TTF_GetError() to tell you why.
OK. Then I get "SDL_UpperBlit: passed a NULL surface". And what does that mean. :S
SDL_BlitSurface is actually 2 functions inside SDL, UpperBlit and LowerBlit. AFAIK, lower blit does the raw transfer and upper blit performs checks on two surfaces and the rectangles to blit to/from. So SDL_UpperBlit was performing these checks and failed because one of the surfaces was NULL.
However, inspecting the SDL_ttf source code I can't find any calls to SDL_BlitSurface, SDL_UpperBlit or SDL_LowerBlit. This means that the error is coming from your own code.
Try the following, if you haven't already:
0) check the return value of TTF_Init(), printing TTF_GetError() if its below zero
1) check the font pointer returned by TTF_OpenFont(), and print TTF_GetError() if NULL
2) put some checks just before calling SDL_BlitSurface(), somewhere in your code you are blitting a NULL surface...
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Hmm... It seams like TTF_RenderText_Solid() doesn't like spaces, because when I changed the sprintf() call to sprintf(score_str, "Score:%ld", score); it worked! I just removed the space and it work. That's weird. :P
Quote:Original post by Adam4444
Hmm... It seams like TTF_RenderText_Solid() doesn't like spaces, because when I changed the sprintf() call to sprintf(score_str, "Score:%ld", score); it worked! I just removed the space and it work. That's weird. :P
I use SDL_ttf with spaces in the strings... its odd that it doesn't work.
Why do I have a feeling 'score_str' doesn't have enough memory allocated, and ends up overrunning something?
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Quote:Original post by Replicon
Why do I have a feeling 'score_str' doesn't have enough memory allocated, and ends up overrunning something?
Yepp, of course there wasn't enough space. :P Silly error of me. Anyways, thanks for your time.
EDIT: I don't think so after all...
Here's the whole code for the function:
void draw_sidebar(void){ int i, j; SDL_Surface *text_surface; SDL_Rect src_rect, dest_rect; SDL_Color text_color; char score_buf[20]; SDL_FillRect(display_surface, &(SDL_Rect) {WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE, 0, SIDEBAR_WIDTH, SIDEBAR_HEIGHT}, SDL_MapRGB(display_surface->format, 0, 0, 0)); text_color.r = text_color.g = text_color.b = 255; /* Show the next figure. */ for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { for (j = 0; j < 4; j++) { if (next_figure.pattern[j] != NOTHING) { src_rect.x = src_rect.y = 0; src_rect.w = src_rect.h = BLOCK_SIZE; dest_rect.x = (j * BLOCK_SIZE) + (WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE); dest_rect.y = (i * BLOCK_SIZE) + 20; dest_rect.w = dest_rect.h = BLOCK_SIZE; SDL_BlitSurface(blocks[next_figure.pattern[j]], &src_rect, display_surface, &dest_rect); } } } /* Generate the text "Next:" over the next figure. */ text_surface = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, "Next:", text_color); src_rect.x = src_rect.y = 0; src_rect.w = dest_rect.w = text_surface->w; src_rect.h = dest_rect.h = text_surface->h; dest_rect.x = WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE + 8; dest_rect.y = 2; SDL_BlitSurface(text_surface, &src_rect, display_surface, &dest_rect); /* View the score, level, and rows deleted. */ sprintf(score_buf, "Score: %lu", score); text_surface = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, score_buf, text_color); src_rect.x = src_rect.y = 0; src_rect.w = dest_rect.w = text_surface->w; src_rect.h = dest_rect.h = text_surface->h; dest_rect.y = 120; SDL_BlitSurface(text_surface, &src_rect, display_surface, &dest_rect); /* Draw the separation line, which seperate the sidebar from the game. */ boxRGBA(display_surface, (WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE), 0, (WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE) + 2, HEIGHT * BLOCK_SIZE, 200, 200, 200, 255); SDL_UpdateRect(display_surface, 0, 0, 0, 0); SDL_FreeSurface(text_surface);}
Put score_buf 128 characters instead of 20, not the ~100 extra bytes that will kill your requiered specs and you will be safe if the player has a very high score...
This sounds like a problem I was having for quite a long time. It turns out that there was a bug in freetype for a while that caused sdl_ttf to fail rendering strings with spaces. If this works when you remove the space then that's probably what you're running into.
The Gentoo bug regarding this problem is here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139494
It covers the details pretty well, and I assume this affected other platforms the same too.
The Gentoo bug regarding this problem is here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139494
It covers the details pretty well, and I assume this affected other platforms the same too.
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