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Re: [ft] Best way using FreeType over OpenGL? Is FTGL alive?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
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Re: [ft] Best way using FreeType over OpenGL? Is FTGL alive? |
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Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:57:57 +1300 |
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:52:19 +0100, timofonic timofonic wrote:
> Is FreeType relevant in an OpenGL context?
Does OpenGL have any text handling at all? No.
> I would like to know what's the best way of using FreeType over
> OpenGL ...
There is one basic way of getting any kind of external graphics into
OpenGL: render/load it into a bitmap/pixmap and bring that into OpenGL
as a texture.