[GEM-dev] gemcvs pix_texture: not using client storage??

[IOhannes zmoelnig]

tigital at mac.com wrote:
> On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 02:19  PM, ben at ekran.org wrote:
> 
>> Doh! The font path in the example 03.ChangeText.pd file is wrong,
>> it should be [font arial.ttf] not [font ../data/arial.ttf]
> 
> 
> ...yeh, definately a problem when ya don't load the font ;-)  Btw, this 
> is another sticky spot in the examples when done on osx, because the 
> patches assume that font's are [loadbang]'ed, but that doesn't do the 
> right thing on OSX (need to have an opengl context before creating the 
> gl font representations)...I've been meaning to upload versions of these 
> examples without the [loadbang], or at least with another comment 
> explaining that the font needs to be loaded AFTER the gl window has been 
> created...

and i think(!) it is the same under linux (with ftgl), however, the 
examples were written for gltt.
anyhow, couldn't the font-loading be executed when the gl-context has 
been established, no matter, when the user clicks/loadbangs the 
"font"-message.
you don't see anything without gl-context, so no one should complain...



>> So I get text now with gltt. So whats the improvement with ftgl?
> 
> 
> ...very big improvement:  extruded 3d fonts!  plus the ability to play 
> with character vertices and such...

for me, the most important improvement of ftgl is, that it renders the 
fonts correctly!
under gltt, some letters at special font-sizes (esp. small fonts, like 
"e" @ 8pts - if i remember correctly) are not rendered at all, resulting 
in output like "H llo", which is not very useful...
(but i guess this could have been fixed with some scaling-tricks)



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IOhannes