Thread: My text doesn't display

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    Question My text doesn't display

    I'm trying to display text on the screen, but my worst nightmare happens: the program compiles, no errors, but nothing happens when I run the program. All I get is a black screen.
    I wrote the code so that I code write text onto the screen by simply doing
    Code:
    glPrint("Hello World %2.2f", float_var);
    It's supposed to parse strings just like a real printf() would do.
    This is the code I'm using:

    Code:
    // this selects the current font to be used in drawing
    void buildfont() {
    	base = glGenLists(96);	// storage for 96 charecters
    	
    	aglUseFont(aglGetCurrentContext(),
    				kFontIDMonaco,		// Choose your font. These are listed in Fonts.h, 
    									// or use GetFNum() toolbox function.
    				bold,				// Style, Also in Fonts.h
    				24,					// 12 point			
    				32,					// start at 32 ...
    				96,					// go for 96 characters ...
    				base);
    }
    
    // supposed to look like an "official" opengl function :)
    void glPrint(const char *fmt, ...) {
    
    	char text[256];				// holds the string
    	va_list ap;					// pointer to list of arguments
    	
    	if (fmt == NULL)			// make sure there is text here
    		return;
    		
    	va_start(ap, fmt);			// parses the string for variables
    	vsprintf(text, fmt, ap);	// convert the symbols into actual numbers
    	va_end(ap);					// results are stored in text
    	
    	glPushAttrib(GL_LIST_BIT);	// pushes the display list bits
    	glListBase(base-32);		// sets the base charecter to 32
    	glCallLists(strlen(text), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text);	// draws the display list text
    	glPopAttrib();				// pops the display list bits back to the way it was before
    }
    Does the problem lie within the Apple specific code, agl? Or am I doing something wrong with GLUT?

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    Are you calling glRasterPos2(i/f) before trying to print? If not try that.
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    yes.

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    ty something like:
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    glPushMatrix();
    		glTranslatef(0,0,-8);
    		glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
    		glRasterPos2f(-9.95f,6.5f);
    		glPrint("Hello World %2.2f", float_var);
    glPopMatrix();
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    Still doesn't work. It's got to be something with my text functions, because triangles and quads display fine.

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    I don't have time to sort through details, but here's my function for drawing the FPS to the screen.
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    void drawFPS() {
    
      static char fpsBuf[100] = {0};
    
      glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
      glDisable(GL_FOG);
      //glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
    
      glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
      glPushMatrix();
      glLoadIdentity();
      glOrtho(-0.5, 639.5, -0.5, 479.5, -1.0, 1.0);
    
      glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
      glLoadIdentity();
    
      static int frames = 0;
      static int t0 = 0;
      frames++;
      GLint t = glutGet(GLUT_ELAPSED_TIME);
      if (t - t0 >= 2000) {
        GLfloat seconds = (t - t0) / 1000.0;
        GLfloat fps = frames / seconds;
        sprintf(fpsBuf, "FPS: %f", fps);
        t0 = t;
        frames = 0;
      }
    
      glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
      printString(GLUT_BITMAP_HELVETICA_18, fpsBuf);
    
      glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
      glPopMatrix();
      glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    
      glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);
    }

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    Having slept on this, just a thought, did you try to disable/enable GL_TEXTURE_2D ?
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    I don't have time to sort through details, but here's my function for drawing the FPS to the screen.
    But what does printString() do? (it's a user-supplied function, right?)

    Having slept on this, just a thought, did you try to disable/enable GL_TEXTURE_2D ?
    I hadn't enabled it. I tried enabling it. No change.

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    >But what does printString() do? (it's a user-supplied function, right?)
    wups...

    Code:
    void printString(void* font, const char* str, int x = 10, int y = 10) {
    
      glRasterPos2i(x, y);
      int len = strlen(str);
      for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
        glutBitmapCharacter(font, str[i]);
      }
    }

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    YES!! I finally got it to work! thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou....

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    What finally got it working?
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    Quote Originally Posted by xds4lx
    What finally got it working?
    my code

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