GLUTBITMAPHEIGHT(3)

NAME
glutBitmapHeight - Return the height of a given font, in pixels.

LIBRARY
OpenGLUT - bitmapfont

SYNOPSIS
#include <openglut.h>
int
glutBitmapHeight(void *font);

PARAMETERS

font A bitmapped font identifier.

DESCRIPTION
Return the line-to-line vertical spacing (in pixels) between lines of a bitmapped font.

Returns 0 if font is invalid.

CAVEATS
Does not report the height used by individual characters. This may limit its usefulness. (Compare with other font-metric queries.)

TODO
We have discussed adding a "font descender" query. We should go ahead and do it.

SEE ALSO
glutBitmapCharacter(3) glutBitmapString(3) glutBitmapWidth(3) glutBitmapLength(3) glutStrokeHeight(3)