Fonts for an application with sdl + opengl

SDL Development
1

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making it with
opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in a SDL +
opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great amount of
options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

2

As i’ve just learned from the list , use the SDL surface as a texture and
then use it in opengl…

2007/5/11, Danilo Vargas :>

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making it with
opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in a SDL +
opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great amount of
options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

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3

Yeh, but doing the font in opengl would not be faster? both (the font from
opengl and from sdl) will have the same quality and flexibility?On 5/11/07, Engin ?alar wrote:

As i’ve just learned from the list , use the SDL surface as a texture and
then use it in opengl…

2007/5/11, Danilo Vargas <@Danilo_Vargas>:

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making it
with opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in a SDL

  • opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great amount of
    options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

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4

i seem to know with the help of sdl_ttf you can use true type fonts,so using
sdl_ttf alternative would provide more quality,I think…

2007/5/12, Danilo Vargas :>

Yeh, but doing the font in opengl would not be faster? both (the font from
opengl and from sdl) will have the same quality and flexibility?

On 5/11/07, Engin ?alar <@Engin_Calar> wrote:

As i’ve just learned from the list , use the SDL surface as a texture
and then use it in opengl…

2007/5/11, Danilo Vargas :

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making it
with opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in a
SDL + opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great
amount of options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

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5

will sdl_ttf use opengl?On 5/12/07, Engin ?alar wrote:

i seem to know with the help of sdl_ttf you can use true type fonts,so
using sdl_ttf alternative would provide more quality,I think…

2007/5/12, Danilo Vargas < @Danilo_Vargas>:

Yeh, but doing the font in opengl would not be faster? both (the font
from opengl and from sdl) will have the same quality and flexibility?

On 5/11/07, Engin ?alar wrote:

As i’ve just learned from the list , use the SDL surface as a texture
and then use it in opengl…

2007/5/11, Danilo Vargas <@Danilo_Vargas>:

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making it
with opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in a
SDL + opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great
amount of options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

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i think the reverse is true.

2007/5/14, Danilo Vargas :>

will sdl_ttf use opengl?

On 5/12/07, Engin ?alar <@Engin_Calar> wrote:

i seem to know with the help of sdl_ttf you can use true type fonts,so
using sdl_ttf alternative would provide more quality,I think…

2007/5/12, Danilo Vargas < zweifel at gmail.com>:

Yeh, but doing the font in opengl would not be faster? both (the font
from opengl and from sdl) will have the same quality and flexibility?

On 5/11/07, Engin ?alar <@Engin_Calar> wrote:

As i’ve just learned from the list , use the SDL surface as a
texture and then use it in opengl…

2007/5/11, Danilo Vargas :

what are the advantages of making a font with SDL_ttf over making
it with opengl?

I have only made fonts with SDL and I am needing to make fonts in
a SDL + opengl application, but I am in doubt about that do to the great
amount of options that I have… could someone give me a tip?

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