Re: Text extent implemented (partially)

[Shai Ayal]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I played with this today. Looks good to me (works for fltk and gnuplot). 
>> However, I have some questions.
>>
>> When you wrote ...
>>
>>> The left and bottom are always set to the lower
>>> left corner of the axes box
>>
>> I assume you meant;  "The left and bottom are always set to the lower left 
>> corner of the text's bounding box."?
>
> I meant indeed the left and bottom value of the extent property, which is
> [left bottom width height]
>
>> Regarding text rotation, I had thought OpenGL was able to arbitrarily rotate 
>> outline fonts, but only able to handle increments of 90 degrees for bitmaps. 
>> Am I confused?
>
> Text is not rendered using OpenGL directly. It is first rendered to a memory
> pixmap, then send to OpenGL context using regular glDrawPixmap call.
> Freetype is used to render the text to the pixmap. At the moment, only 
> rotations
> of multiple of 90 are implemented.
>
Michael,

was there any reason not to render to a texture? that would allow
arbitrary rotation.

Shai