Re: [pygame] GLUT and Py2EXE

[Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kris Schnee wrote:

> I'm looking into the problem of rendering text in OpenGL, with which 
> I've had problems, and it looks like a good way to do it is to use GLUT.
>
> I want to be sure I can package up everything a Windows user needs to 
> run my program using Py2EXE, without any extra knowledge required on 
> their part to install it beyond unzipping it into a directory. But it 
> looks as though GLUT requires that a DLL file be installed into some 
> system directory such as C:\Windows\System32 in order for a program 
> using it to work. Any advice?

Windows applications will first look in the working directory for DLLs 
before they start looking in the system directories.  So, you can 
"install" any DLL files you app requires in the same directory as your 
app (which will be the working directory if a user just double-clicks on 
it to start it).

> I ask because I'd like to use Pygame for the event system, and OpenGL 
> for graphics rendering, which gives me the luxury of either using full 
> 3D graphics or rendering scrolling 2D faster than is possible in 
> Pygame -- but doing text in OpenGL is a pain.

You can use the glutBitmap.. functions to render text, but this limits 
you to some fairly stock ugly bitmap fonts.  As Richard suggests, you 
can use Pyglyph (with Pygame, not with GLUT) to render TrueType fonts as 
textured quads.

Alex.