Adding font display to the SDL graphics.

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fontdemo.c

I had to install the SDL_ttf dev library to compile this one.

The command line to compile this is:

gcc `sdl-config --cflags --libs` -lSDL_ttf fontdemo.c

Notice the additional

-lSDL_ttf

that was added.

The original example code is here.

The arial ttf library is at that link. It has to be renamed to all lowercase to work.

I added a check to see of the font was loaded, the program crashes if font is not found. I made the font background transparent so the font would overlay onto the graphic. I added the graphic.

Updated this to use a different method of creating the text.

Everything the same as above, here is the new code:

fontdemo2.c