Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] font options

[Jonathan H. <ta...@ta...>]

Pyglet does font rendering.

I don't know whether Pyglet plays nice with Tkinter / Togl applications. 
Maybe you can give pyglet an OpenGL context to use?

If it *does* work, then you could use any installed font, or font files 
you provide. See classes Label (plain text) and HTMLLabel (formatted 
with layout):
http://www.pyglet.org/doc/api/pyglet.text-module.html

I once borrowed someone else's code (origins lost in the mists of time, 
sorry!) which uses pyglet font rendering to render text to a texture, 
rather than to the screen:
http://code.google.com/p/brokenspell/source/browse/trunk/sinisterducks/label2texture.py

     Jonathan




On 01/12/2010 18:46, Philip Winston wrote:
> I have a Tkinter/Togl/PyOpenGL app and am interested in my options for 
> drawing 2d text in the OpenGL window.  Text for heads-up text or 
> labels of entities, maybe tooltip-like prompts.  I don't care about 
> supporting arbitrarily fonts, as long as I have one good readable font.
>
> Is it possible to use glutBitmapString even though I'm not using GLUT? 
>  Is this a reasonable approach, any tips for speed?
>
> I'd like to keep my dependencies minimal. I saw PyFTGL but wondered if 
> it might be overkill for my needs, and it requires FTGL and FreeType.
>
> -Philip
>
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