width: Nominal width of each character in pixels
height: Nominal height of each character in pixels
family: (Optional) Font family to use, e.g. Courier (Sequence)
style:(Optional) Font style to use, e.g. Bold (Sequence)
This function creates a single-channel, 8-bit image with the specified string rendered into it. The returned image has a box such that (0, 0) is at the string baseline. The actual height of the image depends on the string itself, but it is always possible to render a line of text in pieces just by translating by the X size of the previous string rendered.
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# Make the "Hello"
label1 = IceImage DrawString("Hello ", 50, 50, "Georgia", "Bold")
label2 = IceImage DrawString("World!", 50, 50, "Georgia", "Bold")
# X offset calculation: just grab the x size of the first label
# and use it to translate the second before addition
offset = list(label1 DataBox at(2), 0)
result = label1 Add(label2 Translate(offset))
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The above example illustrates the utility of the origin being at the baseline: individual strings have different bounding boxes, but are arranged such that concatenation simply requires the use of an x offset. Note that for the purposes of the above example we could just have rendered both words as a single string.
DrawString always returns a single-channel, 8-bit image. IceMan's built-in operations can be used very easily to create color and transparency as desired.
This function returns a List of Lists enumerating the various font family-style combinations available for use. If called with no argmuents it returns the list of fonts installed on the current system. If called with a single file name argument that file is expected to be a text file where each line has three tab delimited columns of "family", "style" and "font file path". To define a mapping between a family and style to a particular font file user the second form of FontChoices.