Re: [pygame] win32ui?

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/14/06, Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Where is the "win32ui" module that PyOpenGl seems to require?

Brian Fisher wrote:
> What is it that your code is trying to do when it is using that module?


It's in my font-rendering-in-OpenGL code, which is based off the Python 
version of the tutorial at:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=13

The code there doesn't use Pygame at all, and is incomprehensible to me:

> def BuildFont ():
> 	global base
>
> 	wgldc = wglGetCurrentDC ()
> 	hDC = win32ui.CreateDCFromHandle (wgldc)
>
>
> 	base = glGenLists(96);					# // Storage For 96 Characters
>
> 	# CreateFont () takes a python dictionary to specify the requested font properties. 
> 	font_properties = { "name" : "Courier New",
> 						"width" : 0 ,
> 						"height" : -24,
> 						"weight" : 800
> 						}
> 	font = win32ui.CreateFont (font_properties)
> 	# // Selects The Font We Want
> 	oldfont = hDC.SelectObject (font)
> 	# // Builds 96 Characters Starting At Character 32
> 	wglUseFontBitmaps (wgldc, 32, 96, base)
> 	# // reset the font
> 	hDC.SelectObject (oldfont)


Or rather, I can tell it's building a set of 96 drawing lists using a 
font, but it's using this mysterious win32ui module to get the "drawing 
context," which apparently has to be of type "long." It doesn't accept 
pygame or the screen-surface or a Pygame-loaded font object as the 
"drawing context," so it's opaque to me.

I'm able to get OpenGL to draw rectangles on the screen in ortho mode, 
but can't get text to display since I can't load a font in the manner 
that seems to be needed.

Kris