Updated to work with all firmwares now!
There are better ways to display text on screen now, but this program should still serve as a simple demo for people who want to get started.
I am in the process of porting some of my Wii U Homebrew to the Switch. While doing so, I found that I needed to be able to graphically display text on screen. I put the font drawing code into an easy to read hello world program, so that if people on 3.0.0 want to learn some simple programing, this may be a good start.
Link and instructions: https://github.com/vgmoose/sdl-hello-world
I can help provide support in this thread if people have issues getting this setup on their Switch/computer.
Also note that as of this time of writing, these instructions may change or become outdated as new stuff comes out. Particularly, drawing text this way isn't a great solution but it should be okay for a quick demo.
There are better ways to display text on screen now, but this program should still serve as a simple demo for people who want to get started.
I am in the process of porting some of my Wii U Homebrew to the Switch. While doing so, I found that I needed to be able to graphically display text on screen. I put the font drawing code into an easy to read hello world program, so that if people on 3.0.0 want to learn some simple programing, this may be a good start.
Link and instructions: https://github.com/vgmoose/sdl-hello-world
I can help provide support in this thread if people have issues getting this setup on their Switch/computer.
Also note that as of this time of writing, these instructions may change or become outdated as new stuff comes out. Particularly, drawing text this way isn't a great solution but it should be okay for a quick demo.
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