Problem rendering TTF font (Allegro 5)

Toumaz

I'm working on a small project using Allegro 5, and I've encountered a problem when rendering text using a TTF font under what seems like very specific circumstances.

Put simply, if I enable mipmapping and then try to draw text using a loaded TTF font, nothing seems to actually be drawn. The problem only occurs with TTF fonts (bitmap fonts work fine) and moreover, only while using the OpenGL driver (D3D works fine, too).

I'm using Allegro 5.0.0 RC3 with Visual Studio 2008 under Windows 7 64-bit. The graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+, driver version 258.96.

I've tried reproducing it on a different computer under Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit, where drawing works both with and without mipmapping. I'm not very familiar with linux on the whole so I'm not certain what other information would be helpful, nor do I know offhand what hardware the machine has, aside from an ATI graphics card.

Here is a small test program I made along with a screenshot of the four test results. The resources used are from the examples bundled with Allegro 5.

#SelectExpand
  1#include <allegro5/allegro.h>
  2#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h>
  3#include <allegro5/allegro_ttf.h>
  4#include <allegro5/allegro_image.h>
  5
  6//#define USE_OPENGL
  7//#define USE_MIPMAP
  8
  9int main()
 10{
 11  al_init();
 12  al_install_keyboard();
 13
 14#ifdef USE_OPENGL
 15  al_set_new_display_flags(ALLEGRO_WINDOWED | ALLEGRO_OPENGL);
 16#else
 17  al_set_new_display_flags(ALLEGRO_WINDOWED | ALLEGRO_DIRECT3D_INTERNAL);
 18#endif
 19
 20  ALLEGRO_DISPLAY* display = al_create_display(480, 128);
 21
 22#ifdef USE_OPENGL
 23#  ifdef USE_MIPMAP
 24  al_set_window_title(display, "OpenGL (using mipmaps)");
 25#  else
 26  al_set_window_title(display, "OpenGL (no mipmaps)");
 27#  endif
 28#else
 29#  ifdef USE_MIPMAP
 30  al_set_window_title(display, "D3D (using mipmaps)");
 31#  else
 32  al_set_window_title(display, "D3D (no mipmaps)");
 33#  endif
 34#endif
 35
 36  al_init_image_addon();
 37  al_init_font_addon();
 38  al_init_ttf_addon();
 39
 40#ifdef USE_MIPMAP
 41  al_set_new_bitmap_flags(al_get_new_bitmap_flags() | ALLEGRO_MIPMAP);
 42#endif
 43
 44  ALLEGRO_FONT* font_ttf = al_load_font("DejaVuSans.ttf", 36, 0);
 45  ALLEGRO_FONT* font_bmp = al_load_font("bmpfont.tga", 0, 0);
 46
 47  while (true)
 48  {
 49    ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_STATE keyboard_state;
 50    al_get_keyboard_state(&keyboard_state);
 51
 52    if (al_key_down(&keyboard_state, ALLEGRO_KEY_ESCAPE))
 53      break;
 54
 55    al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(128, 192, 225));
 56
 57    al_draw_text(font_ttf, al_map_rgb(255, 255, 255), 10.0f, 10.0f, ALLEGRO_ALIGN_LEFT, "Lorem ipsum");
 58    al_draw_text(font_bmp, al_map_rgb(255, 255, 255), 10.0f, 60.0f, ALLEGRO_ALIGN_LEFT, "Lorem ipsum");
 59
 60    al_flip_display();
 61  }
 62
 63  al_destroy_font(font_ttf);
 64  al_destroy_font(font_bmp);
 65
 66  al_destroy_display(display);
 67}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Peter Wang

I can reproduce it here under Linux/nvidia. I'll try to look at it.

EDIT: Test this patch for me.

EDIT2: New patch.

Toumaz

That does seem to have done the trick - drawing works fine now.
Thanks a lot for the speedy response and for an excellent library!

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