Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] font options

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

On 12/1/10 11:27 AM, Jonathan Hartley 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.

I'm looking at using the wxHTML widget to draw text to an offscreen 
bitmap, then making a texture out of that and rendering it with 
pyOpenGL. That has the advantage of doing basic layout for you: 
linewrapping, simple formatting, etc.

Can you use the TK text widget to render to an off-screen bitmap?

Sorry, I don't have a working sample at this point.

-Chris



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