Re: [Plib-users] Compiling for windows

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Norman Vine wrote:

> Also FWIW there is some 'ugly' code in the FlightGear
> Source cockpit / hud.hxx
> that I used to speed up PLib text when I 'KNEW'
> that I was rendering a lot of text with no intervening
> glstate changes.
> 
> class fgText
> class fgTextList
> 
> This code could probably be cleaned up a little bit
> but it served its purpose for me as is :-)

I don't know that code - but I thought about this very
carefully when I wrote the FNT library.

You *should* be able to avoid state costs when rendering
text by using the begin()/end() member functions to
bracket your rendering.  Did you need something beyond
that?  I'd be suprised.

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