wxGLCanvas with opengl text (to glut or not to glut) Topic is solved

[mimosa]

Hi
wxWidgets version: 3.0.2
platform/OS: Windows 7 64 bit
compiler: mingw32-gcc

I have a wxWidgets frame based project, with a panel for opengl derived from wxGLCanvas. I can draw nice shapes, background, etc, even track the mouse, but now I want to draw text and I'm not sure where to start. I might want to stay away from glut (or should I not?) because while I got glut library to compile with mingw32 and link to my project (statically), it crashes on "glutBitmapCharacter" in the following snippet (assume that the arguments are valid):

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void DrawTextFunction(double x, double y, char* str)
{
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
glRasterPos2f(x, y);
glutBitmapCharacter(GLUT_BITMAP_HELVETICA_12, str[0]);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}

and the error is:
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.

the error does not show up if I comment out the line with glutBitmapCharacter. The str variable is populated with valid text.

I can draw some text with the non-opengl context after the call to SwapBuffers but the graphic flickers, and it's not pretty nor efficient if I want to draw lots of text (because the regular context has no display list) and so I'd rather draw the text in opengl context. How can I do that? (Can I get away without glut and only using wxwidgets classes and regular call to opengl functions?)

[doublemax]

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.

the error does not show up if I comment out the line with glutBitmapCharacter. The str variable is populated with valid text.

I'd guess that the glut32.dll is not found.

Alternatively, try wxGLString:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=22453

[mimosa]

It appears that while I was able to compile the glut library with mingw32-make, it didn't make a "good" library.. (for the lack of better words). I found a pre-compiled version for glut for Windows platforms (both .a and .h files) and when I link with this pre-compiled version downloaded from a third party link, my program doesn't crash.. I'll have to investigate the reason why glut didn't compile correctly (not giving errors).. this is strange. But lesson learned, test your library when you compile one, before putting it in your projects..