is there any function in SDL that will print out text to the screen? is there any way of printing to the screen without having to create some sort of font engine? i''m making a sidescroller and i only want to print out the world coordinates of my character as the game is being played.. any help would be greatly appreciated

There is on textout function for Sdl, but you don''t have to create your own font engine. You can use a already made font library.

I use one called bfont. Its pretty good. I don''t remeber the url where I got it, but there is a link to it at the SDL site (www.libsdl.org). Follow the link for ''libraries''.