Re: [Gsg0-devel] [dev] X-platform font support

[<mr...@le...>]

Yeah, this sounds like a good solution to me.  One thing I definitely recommend
is looking at the source code to cross-platform projects such as BZFlag
(http://www.bzflag.org/).  I read through a lot of the bzflag code over the
summer, and a lot of it makes sense.  There are a lot of issues we can avoid
reinventing the wheel on.

Quoting Tim Cunningham <tf...@Le...>:

> This is mostly addressed to Matt, but I hope we can get the whole ball
> rolling on the list here.  (I'm not sure who is even signed up, but I'm
> hoping it's 4 of us, or at least 3).
> 
> What I've found when writing CONTRAceptive is that the best way to do good
> cross-platform support is to write a class that has a few initialization
> routines that have big #ifdefs around them to see if you're in Windows or
> Linux... they end up rendering fonts to displaylists, and then the display
> list is just used generically in the rest of the class...  At least, that's
> the way I did it, and it seems to work well and be fairly clean.
> 
> Anyway, this isn't a huge issue and I'm sure Matt can come up with an equally
> compelling solution.
> -- 
> Tim Cunningham
> 
> "I'm not claiming to be deep, I'm claiming to do it for fun." - Linus
> Torvalds
> 




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