glutBitmapCharacter() and glutBitmapString()?

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Post: #1

May 12, 2009 — 11:06 AM

I'm sort-of-new to OpenGL/GLUT in C. I'm using Xcode to make my first project, a game where you are a square who can shoot a laser at a blue box. It's nowhere near finished, and I wanted to add a title screen. First of all, some text?

I've tried glutBitmapCharacter() and glutBitmapString(), but I can't seem to get those to work. Here's a portion of my main.c: ( I used some code somebody had posted on the forums, if that's you: thanks!

)

Code:

drawGLString(GLfloat x, GLfloat y, char *textString)

{

    int le;

    int qs;

    glRasterPos2f(x, y);

    le = (int) strlen(textString);

    for (qs = 0; qs < le; qs++) 

    {

        glutBitmapCharacter(GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13, string[qs]);

    }

}

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AnotherJake

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Post: #2

May 13, 2009 — 09:28 AM

That should actually work, but you'll need to change the line:

glutBitmapCharacter(GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13, string[qs]);

To:

glutBitmapCharacter(GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13, textString[qs]);

That should have shown up as a compiler error.

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