OpenGL text rendering library

OpenGL text rendering library

gnolam

Member #2,030

March 2002

As it looks like I might finally have some spare time coming up, I thought I'd start working on my (AllegroGL) projects again. However, I need a decent text rendering library to proceed.

I need at least:

printf() equivalent functionality.
Text justification.
Unicode (UTF-8) support.
TTF support.

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AllegroGL's built-in text functionality doesn't handle justification (and I haven't managed to wrangle it to do Unicode either) and Glyph keeper had no official support for OpenGL last I checked (which is right before it was left to bit rot). So what else is out there?

[EDIT]
Added the cross-platform requirement I forgot earlier.

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kikabo

Member #3,679

July 2003

Fudgefont if your on linux, I had trouble with building on mingw. I don't know if it meets all of your requirements but must be worth a look.

gnolam

Member #2,030

March 2002

And of course, it comes with a non-make own build system and Yet Another Dependency (and LF endings in the Readmes). sigh
I'll try to check it out and report back.

[EDIT]
Nope. No dice. Didn't manage to compile it.

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kikabo

Member #3,679

July 2003

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Nope. No dice. Didn't manage to compile it.

Well, that makes me feel better then.

It's a shame because it looks really useful, I did mean to write a makefile, someone must really hate make to use python as a build system which is only likely to work on systems where make would have worked anyway ...

Richard Phipps

Member #1,632

November 2001

Gnolam:

Fix GlyphKeeper, or FreeType in OpenLayer for us.

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gnolam

Member #2,030

March 2002

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Fix GlyphKeeper

I have neither the time nor will to fix a library whose internals I'm unfamiliar with.

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FreeType in OpenLayer

I don't use it.

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Fladimir da Gorf

Member #1,565

October 2001

You could just rip the text rendering methods if you wanted...

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kikabo

Member #3,679

July 2003

well I fudged a makefile just to link the examples locally but with mixed results

...oh, I had to change include <> to include "" and add END_OF_MAIN() to examples 2 and 3

1# make gl=1   == build allegrogl examples
2 
3cc=gcc
4CFLAGS=-Wall -Isrc  -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -ffast-math -funroll-loops
5 
6OBJDIR = build/shared/release
7 
8 
9ifdef MINGDIR
10 
11  ifdef gl
12    CFLAGS=-DALLEGROGL
13    LDFLAGS=-lagl -lopengl32 -lglu32 
14    suffix=_gl
15  endif
16 
17  LDFLAGS+=-lm -mwindows -Wl,--subsystem,windows -lalleg -luser32 -lgdi32  -lfreetype
18  ext=.exe
19else
20 
21  ifdef gl
22    CFLAGS=-DALLEGROGL
23    LDFLAGS=-lagl -lGL -lGLU
24  endif
25 
26  LDFLAGS+=-lm `allegro-config --libs` `freetype-config --libs`
27  CFLAGS+=`freetype-config --cflags`
28endif
29 
30FILES   = example1.c example2.c example3.c
31EXBINS = $(addprefix src/, $(addsuffix $(suffix)$(ext), $(basename $(FILES))))
32EXOBJS = $(addprefix $(OBJDIR)/, $(addsuffix $(suffix).o, $(basename $(FILES))))
33LIB = $(OBJDIR)/fudgefont.o
34 
35all:  library examples
36 
37library: $(LIB)
38 
39examples: $(EXBINS)
40 
41$(BINARY) : $(OBJS)
42  $(cc) -o $(BINARY) $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS)
43 
44src/example%$(ext) : $(OBJDIR)/example%.o
45  $(cc) -o $@ $(LIB) $< $(LDFLAGS)
46 
47$(EXBINS) : $(EXOBJS)
48 
49 
50$(OBJDIR)/%$(suffix).o: src/%.c
51  $(cc) $(CFLAGS) -Isrc -c $< -o $@
52 
53clean:
54  del $(OBJDIR)/*.*
55