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OpenTK and fonts

Posted Wednesday, 4 July, 2012 - 07:47 by lid6j86 in

What is the best alternative to FreeType for C#? does OpenTK have anything built into it to help with rendering text?

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Wednesday, 4 July, 2012 - 08:02 by puklaus

http://www.opentk.com/project/QuickFont

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Wednesday, 4 July, 2012 - 16:26 by lid6j86

thanks. took a second but I got it up and running

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Thursday, 5 July, 2012 - 09:59 by lid6j86

Ok, ran into my first issues with QuickFont.

GL.Clear(ClearBufferMask.ColorBufferBit | ClearBufferMask.DepthBufferBit | ClearBufferMask.StencilBufferBit);
 
            GL.LoadMatrix(ref camView);
 
            GL.EnableClientState(ArrayCap.VertexArray);
 
            coordSys.Draw();
 
            GL.DisableClientState(ArrayCap.VertexArray);
 
            int qFontLine = 0;
            QFont.Begin();
            InfFont.Print("FPS: " + Math.Round(RenderFrequency, 2), new Vector2(0, 0));
            ++qFontLine;
            InfFont.Print(new String('\n', ++qFontLine) + "X: " + Math.Round(camCoord.X, 2));
            InfFont.Print(new String('\n', ++qFontLine) + "Y: " + Math.Round(camCoord.Y, 2));
            InfFont.Print(new String('\n', ++qFontLine) + "Z: " + Math.Round(camCoord.Z, 2));
            ++qFontLine;
            InfFont.Print(new String('\n', ++qFontLine) + "H-Angle: " + Math.Round(camAngle.Y, 2));
            InfFont.Print(new String('\n', ++qFontLine) + "V-Angle: " + Math.Round(camAngle.X, 2));
            QFont.End();
 
            SwapBuffers();

now when I run this, the coordsys that I draw disappears. Is there something about quickfont that clears the screen at QFont.Begin or QFont.Print, etc... that is causing everything else to disappear?

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Thursday, 5 July, 2012 - 13:26 by lid6j86

took some time but I finally figured it out.

using GL.PushAttrib(AttribMask.ColorBufferBit); before

and GL.PopAttrib(); after the Qfont render allowed for both to be drawn, and both bright (I saw some other people had dimming issues)

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Saturday, 11 May, 2013 - 15:45 by AltSoftLab

You can use AltSketch. It has AltNETType - C# port of FreeType. Look at AltSketch C# vector graphics library

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Re: OpenTK and fonts

Posted Friday, 10 May, 2013 - 17:51 by AltSoftLab

AltSketch also contains high level classes to operate with fonts (system fonts, custom font files) in System.Drawing.Font style. High level AltSketch render system can draw raster & vectorized outline data.