====== (This function is part of SDL_ttf, a separate library from SDL.) ======
= TTF_RenderText_Blended =

Render Latin1 text at high quality to a new ARGB surface.

== Syntax ==

<syntaxhighlight lang='c'>
SDL_Surface * TTF_RenderText_Blended(TTF_Font *font,
                const char *text, SDL_Color fg);
</syntaxhighlight>

== Function Parameters ==

{|
|'''font'''
|the font to render with.
|-
|'''text'''
|text to render, in Latin1 encoding.
|-
|'''fg'''
|the foreground color for the text.
|}

== Return Value ==

Returns a new 32-bit, ARGB surface, or NULL if there was an error.

== Remarks ==

This function will allocate a new 32-bit, ARGB surface, using alpha
blending to dither the font with the given color. This function returns the
new surface, or NULL if there was an error.

This will not word-wrap the string; you'll get a surface with a single line
of text, as long as the string requires. You can use
[[TTF_RenderText_Blended_Wrapped]]() instead if you need to wrap the output
to multiple lines.

This will not wrap on newline characters.

You almost certainly want [[TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended]]() unless you're sure
you have a 1-byte Latin1 encoding. US ASCII characters will work with
either function, but most other Unicode characters packed into a
<code>const char *</code> will need UTF-8.

You can render at other quality levels with [[TTF_RenderText_Solid]],
[[TTF_RenderText_Blended]], and [[TTF_RenderText_LCD]].

== Version ==

This function is available since SDL_ttf 2.0.12.

== Related Functions ==

:[[TTF_RenderUTF8_Shaded]]
:[[TTF_RenderUNICODE_Shaded]]

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