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Hi everyone,

I have started using opengl 3 month ago and now i really need to draw text for an application i am designing. My friend talked me about GLfont and it's exactly what i am looking for... Trying two days to make it work, i have definitely give up. Here is my code... Could someone help me know its not working?

≠ include <windows.h>

≠ include <gl/gl.h>

≠ include <gl/glu.h>

≠ include <GL/glut.h>

≠ include <iostream>

≠ include <stdio.h>

≠ include "glfont.h"

GLuint textureName =1;

glGenTextures((GLsizei)1, &textureName);

PixelPerfectGLFont *myfont = new PixelPerfectGLFont();

void TestBedInit (void) {

    //Initialize OpenGL

    glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

    glEnable(GL_BLEND);

    glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

    //Initialize the viewport

    glViewport(0, 0, 640, 480);

    //Initialize OpenGL projection matrix

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);

    glLoadIdentity();

    glOrtho(0.0f, 640.0f, 480.0f, 0.0f, -2.0f, 2.0f);

    //Try and load our font

    try {
            myfont->Create("me.glf", textureName);

    }

    catch(GLFontError::InvalidFile)

{ cerr << "Cannot load fontn";

            abort();

    }

}

void TestBedRender (void) { //Draw some stuff

    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);

    glLoadIdentity( );

    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

    glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) ;

    try {

            myfont->Begin();

            myfont->TextOut("hello world", 5, 5, 0);

            //myfont->End();

    }

    catch(GLFontError::InvalidFont) {

cerr << "Trying to draw with an uninitialized fontn";

            abort();

    }

    glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

    glLoadIdentity();

}

void display(void) {

    TestBedRender();

    glutSwapBuffers() ;

}

void handleResize(int w, int h) {

    glViewport(0, 0, w, h);

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);

    glLoadIdentity();

    gluPerspective(45.0, (float)w / (float)h, 1.0, 200.0);

}

int main(int argc, char argv) {

    glutInit(&argc, argv) ;

    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DOUBLE) ;

    glutInitWindowSize(640, 480);

    glutCreateWindow(argv[0]) ;

    TestBedInit();

    glutDisplayFunc(display) ;

    glutReshapeFunc(handleResize);

    glutMainLoop() ;

    //delete myfont;

return 0 ;

}