[PyOpenGL-Users] rendering fonts using pygame

[fulko <vw...@fv...>]

Hello,

The font rendering problem kept me busy for some time now.

I tried to use OpenGLContext to draw various fonts in OpenGL under
Python, unfortunately without success. To solve the problem I started
to dissect the files in scenegraph/text, but without much result.

My goal is to select one TTF-file (e.g. arial.ttf), use the PyGame
library to render the font in a particular size (preferably
anti-aliased), and put the result in my OpenGL buffer.

This is my understanding of the process until now:

Pygamefont.py provides PyGameBitmapFont that can be used to create a
font object. Then createChar can be used to compile a display list for
each character desired.

Font.py seems to provide the routines to convert a string into a list
of display lists, and put these in the colour buffer.

My idea is changing the routines so I can do something like this:

x=PyGameBitmapFont('arial.ttf',20)
textstring='My Text'
lines=[]
for c in textstring:
    lines.append(x.createChar(c,'anti-aliased'))
BitmapFontMixIn.leftJustify(lines,pos)


I would like to make the code as lean as possible, so I can understand
the process and tune it to my needs. Am I on the right way?

Thanks,
Fulko