Question

Right now in my game I’m drawing true type fonts like this:

for(int i = linesSkipped; i <= maxitems + linesSkipped; ++i)
    {
        if(i >= (int)textRows.size())
        {
            break;
        }
        paintargs.graphics()->drawText(AguiPoint(textX - 2,
            textY - 2 + (i * getFont().getLineHeight())),
            textRows[i].c_str(),AguiColor(0,0,0),getFont());

        paintargs.graphics()->drawText(AguiPoint(textX + 2,
            textY + 2 + (i * getFont().getLineHeight())),
            textRows[i].c_str(),AguiColor(0,0,0),getFont());

        paintargs.graphics()->drawText(AguiPoint(textX,
            textY + (i * getFont().getLineHeight())),
            textRows[i].c_str(),AguiColor(255,128,0),getFont());

    }

So I draw it with an offset of 2, then with an offset of -1 .

It almost does what I want, but the top right and bottom left edges are still unstroked:

Is there a way to draw it such that it would look like stroking in Photoshop?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to draw the text in all corners! What you’re doing is drawing in the top-left corner and in the bottom-right corner, which is respectively X=-2, Y=-2 and X=2, Y=2.
What you need to do, is to draw them in the bottom-left and the top-right corner too, which would be respectively X=-2, Y=2 and X=2, Y=-2.