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

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)

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.

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.

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

Cris wrote:
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> 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).

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