Re: [pygame] Re: BOUNCE pygame-users@seul.org: Non-member submission from ["David Keeney" <dkeeney@travelbyroad.net>]

["Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>]

On Jun 24, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:

> Lì giovedì, 2004/06/24 alle 08:06, -0700, Pete Shinners ha scritto:
> > > I am looking at converting some code from GLUT to PyGame.
> > > Does the font functionality work in OpenGL display mode, or is there
> > > a workaround way to display text to an OpenGL display using
> > > PyGame?
If you need speed, you need to go the textured quad route.  However,
if you just need to put text on the screen, the following code works for
me:

import OpenGL.GL as ogl

def drawText(position, textString):
    font = pygame.font.Font (None, 64)

    # Sigh.  pygame colors are 0-255 integers
    textSurface = font.render(textString, True,
                              (255, 255, 255, 255),
                              (0, 0, 0, 255))
    textData = pygame.image.tostring(textSurface,
                                     "RGBA", True)
    ogl.glRasterPos3d(*position)
    ogl.glDrawPixels(textSurface.get_width(),
                     textSurface.get_height(),
                     ogl.GL_RGBA, ogl.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, textData)

Hope this helps,
-a