• Cris (1/1) Jul 10 2006 Does somebody know a working technique to display ttfonts in OpenGL?
• Johan Granberg (7/8) Jul 10 2006 Use the freetype library or sdl i have used both. If you want to look at...
• clayasaurus (3/4) Jul 10 2006 I used this http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=4 and...
• Hasan Aljudy (6/7) Jul 10 2006 SDL
• Cris (2/2) Jul 10 2006 Thank you everybody but is it wise to mix SDL fonts with OpenGL? Aren't ...
• Hasan Aljudy (4/9) Jul 11 2006 I'm not sure, but I think SDL renders the text into a surface (image). I...
• Johan Granberg (2/12) Jul 11 2006 That is correct.

Cris <central_p hotmail.com> writes:

Does somebody know a working technique to display ttfonts in OpenGL?

Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:

Cris wrote:
 Does somebody know a working technique to display ttfonts in OpenGL?

Use the freetype library or sdl i have used both. If you want to look at 
my code a unfinished library of mine is at 
http://www.cs.umu.se/~c05jgg/sige-0.1.0rc8.tar.bz2 extract the archive 
and the sdl code is in sige/lib/sige/sdlcore. or use the library as is 
(im still working on it and is closing on a real release), (Consider all 
my code to bee under a BSD licence but remember that sdl is under lgpl)

clayasaurus <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Cris wrote:
 Does somebody know a working technique to display ttfonts in OpenGL?

I used this http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=4 and 
DerelictFT (FreeType) to get my freetype opengl fonts working.

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

Cris wrote:
 Does somebody know a working technique to display ttfonts in OpenGL?

SDL
http://lazyfooproductions.com/SDL_tutorials/lesson07/index.php

You might also want to checks first few lessons at
http://lazyfooproductions.com/SDL_tutorials/index.php

The Derelict project   dsource provides bindings to SDL.

Cris <central_p hotmail.com> writes:

Thank you everybody but is it wise to mix SDL fonts with OpenGL? Aren't those
two 
completely different APIs?

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

Cris wrote:
 
 
 
 Thank you everybody but is it wise to mix SDL fonts with OpenGL? Aren't 
 those two completely different APIs?

I'm not sure, but I think SDL renders the text into a surface (image). I 
think you can read off the actual data from the surface and use it in 
OpenGL (somehow).

Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
 Cris wrote:
 Thank you everybody but is it wise to mix SDL fonts with OpenGL? 
 Aren't those two completely different APIs?

 
 I'm not sure, but I think SDL renders the text into a surface (image). I 
 think you can read off the actual data from the surface and use it in 
 OpenGL (somehow).

That is correct.