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Drawing text is hard, and not something that should be solved at the OpenGL level. It involves coordinating with the window manager and user settings. But I'm

• parris 11y ago
  I agree for the most part. For a lot of cases we did use tooltips, overlays, and sidebars. That isn't a cure all though. Without embedding text we couldn't really give enough context to the end user.
• mrec 11y ago
  > Drawing text is hard, and not something that should be solved at the OpenGL level. Agree completely with the first part, less sure about the second. Almost everything needs to do it. Text rendering was included in OpenVG, which seems to have flopped completely. And rendering anything to the screen with OpenGL will involve coordinating with the window manager. Mark Kilgard's gigantic NV_path_rendering extension included a LOT of font/glyph support. It surprised me as well when I first read it, but there's some interesting discussion of the rationale in the second item of the Issues list at the end of the spec [1]. [1] https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/path_rendering.txt https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/path_rendering.txt
• mattdesl 11y ago
  For certain applications, it makes sense to solve it outside of OpenGL. For other applications [1][2], it makes more sense to utilize the GPU directly. [1] - http://mattdesl.github.io/npm-names/ http://mattdesl.github.io/npm-names/ [2] - http://mattdesl.svbtle.com/material-design-on-the-gpu http://mattdesl.svbtle.com/material-design-on-the-gpu