al_draw_text(3)

al_draw_text3

Allegro 5 api

Usage

#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h>
void al_draw_text(const ALLEGRO_FONT *font,
   ALLEGRO_COLOR color, float x, float y, int flags,
   char const *text)

Overview

Writes the NUL-terminated string text onto the target bitmap at position x, y, using the specified font.

The flags parameter can be 0 or one of the following flags:

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ALLEGRO_ALIGN_LEFT - Draw the text left-aligned (same as 0).

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ALLEGRO_ALIGN_CENTRE - Draw the text centered around the given position.

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ALLEGRO_ALIGN_RIGHT - Draw the text right-aligned to the given position.

It can also be combined with this flag:

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ALLEGRO_ALIGN_INTEGER - Always draw text aligned to an integer pixel position. This was formerly the default behaviour. Since: 5.0.8, 5.1.4

This function does not support newline characters (\n), but you can use al_draw_multiline_text(3) for multi line text output.

From allegro 5.2.11.3-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.