Displaying text

pin3 · Post by **pin3** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:46 pm

What is the best way to display simple text? I tried
font = device->getGUIEnvironment()->getBuiltInFont(); font->draw() however it is slow and I don't know how to set the text size.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:06 pm

Irrlicht's fonts are bitmap fonts, which means you have to generate a new font for each size that you use.

Ein · Post by **Ein** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:03 pm

Not sure if this helps but this is from the 2d tutorial (Cliky)

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gui::IGUIFont* font = device->getGUIEnvironment()->getBuiltInFont();

font->draw(L"This demo shows that Irrlicht is also capable of drawing 2D graphics.", core::rect<s32>(130,10,300,50), video::SColor(255,255,255,255));

HTH,
Pete

EDIT, This is what you have >_< sorry no help at all.

pin3 · Post by **pin3** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:25 am

ok,
thanks for posting, I'll figure out something