Re: [pygame] win32ui?

["Brian Fisher" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/14/06, Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
There is also the approach of drawing font outlines, basically as
polygons. It doesn't usually turn out as well as caching bitmaps of
fonts, but glut does have a routine that can do that (for a fixed
font, not a ttf, but it's interesting nonetheless & fairly simple to
use)

glutStrokeCharacter