Text tool about grafx2 HOT 7 CLOSED

Text: SDL_ttf can do all the pixel work, including optional AA, as long as we 
write 
the converter from "SDL_Surface (RGB)" to 2D byte array (8bit)"
Text should be rendered AS a brush! Then you can apply any Brush 
transformations, 
like Rotate, Stretch, Outline; You preview where you paste it, and you select 
any 
combination of modes: Transparency, Shading...

SDL_ttf only gives monochromatic text, however, while Sfont can handle colors. 
Anyways, the Sfont format is really, really simple and with some tricks we can 
probably make SDL_ttf render a file suitable for handling with Sfont.

Rendering as brush is quite a good idea :)

In progress. 
No commit until clean and stable, unless I make a branch for this...

TrueType fonts require a heap of depedencies, so I'll make it optional when 
compiling (make NOTTF=1). The binaries WILL have the problem as well, the do 
require 
a handful of run-time libraries. The Windows install can contain the 3 or 4 
extra 
DLLs in its own directory, but in Linux it's not as simple...

Changing owner

Current status is that the Text tool works and is stable on Windows.
my TODO:
Support PageUp/PageDown keys in font selector. Arrows/Home/End are already done.
Linux: Find fonts (/usr/share/fonts/ ?)
Windows: Better enumeration of fonts by browsing %windir%/fonts
Bold and Italic for TTF fonts (SDL_ttf seems to support them)
Better GUI, showing TTF options as a group (disabled when a non-TTF font is 
selected)

WISHLIST:
Windows: Better enumeration of fonts by reading the registry
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts)

Linux : font now found with XLib. Needs some sorting and removing of duplicates 
on 
my system ...

I think it's done