Marco wrote: >I must use text in Opengl, Python >This text is for architecture design then I need to use AutoCad fonts >(extension .shx). >I have two troubles: > >I don't find a guide, a good program, something for use any kind of >fonts in PyOpengl. The nehe tutorial has some bugs in translation to >Python. >I need to scale rotate the text. > > For general font rendering you can choose two major approaches, either use a built-in platform-Dependant system (such as seen in the NeHe tutorial) or code your own to render the individual characters using either one of the cross-platform GUI libraries (2D text) or TTFQuery (3D/polygonal text (i.e. you can rotate in all 3 dimensions)). There is a NeHe tutorial translation for the font-rendering demo in OpenGLContext's tests directory. To render text in general, see the OpenGLContext/scenegraph/text/* modules. However, none of those knows how to handle .shx files, they load TTF fonts instead.
>I don't know anything about handling fonts, I must use this .shx but I >don't know. In which way can I take this file and put them in my >programs? > > If you can find a format specification you may be able to write an importer (IIRC SHX fonts are just series of lines, so would be very easy to render once you have the format read). You might find it easier to redefine the process as "tell autocad to use truetype, then render truetype" if whoever is asking for .shx will allow it. >If somebody wants to help me :-) >Thanks. > > HTH, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
