Re: [pygame] win32ui?

[Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luke Paireepinart wrote:

> [snip code]
>
> > 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
> You could try installing the pythonwin module to see if that helps,

Yes, Mark Hammond's Win32 Extensions 
(http://www.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html) includes the 
win32ui module. 

> but it seems (to me, though I have no pyOpenGL experience) that you 
> shouldn't need to use win32ui to do this.

Kris is using WGL to build font bitmaps, which is the Windows/OpenGL 
"glue".  On Linux this is GLX and on Mac it's AGL.  Minor changes would 
be required to use these in place of WGL on these platforms.

> Otherwise, how are all those linuxers getting OpenGL fonts? :D

Certainly not by getting the OS to draw font bitmaps.  The standard 
technique is to render the characters you need to a texture (using 
pygame.font or SDL_ttf, for example), and rendering screen-aligned quads 
of the textures.  pyglyph 
(http://www.partiallydisassembled.net/pyglyph/) is a module that does 
exactly this.

Alex.