[BUG] ITextSceneNode & IBillboardTextSceneNode

[gerdb]

hi, i got many bugs when using Text 'functionality'

#1 ITextSceneNode & IBillboardTextSceneNode dont understand linebreaks or tabs !!! ( wtf )

#2 IBillboardSceneNode does not work with custom fonts ( CGUITTFont )

#3 CGUITTFont displays poop ( characters are always corrupted/incomplete independent of font + visible spaces between characters )

#4 No text-drawing to IImage ( i made a workaround with font->draw --> RTT --> image )

i know #3 is not official, just wanted to mention it, irrlicht too much lacks support for text-drawing for my taste. #1 is really bad.

thx

using OGL + Linux64 + irr-svn

[CuteAlien]

Yes, we have no single text-wrapping class in Irrlicht. Which is why stuff like line-breaking is independently implemented all over code (with different problems). I wanted to work on that last year, but got stuck in finding a lot of related gui-problems before even being able to approach this one. So the answer to all this is - we need a good line-breaking utility class in Irrlicht and replace all the custom solutions by that. Which we don't have so far.

[hendu]

#4 No text-drawing to IImage ( i made a workaround with font->draw --> RTT --> image )

Drawing text completely cpu-side, to an image in cpu-accessible memory, is not really what a graphics engine should be doing... What are you doing with the text that needs it to be on the cpu?