NeHe Translations: Win32 Bitmap Text (NeHe 13)

#! /usr/bin/env python

Win32 Bitmap Text (NeHe 13)

This tutorial draws text to screen using WGL bitmap functionality WGL is only available on Win32 platforms!
This tutorial is based on the NeHe13 tutorial by Jeff Molofee and assumes that you are reading along with the tutorial, so that only changes from the tutorial are noted here.
We're going to have to use the wxPython context explicitly, so that we have a single API for getting a window handle.
from OpenGLContext.wxinteractivecontext import wxInteractiveContext from OpenGLContext import testingcontext from OpenGL.GL import * from math import cos, sin import sys try: from OpenGL.WGL import * import win32ui, win32con except ImportError, err: print """Unable to import Win32 text modules: %s"""%(err,) sys.exit( testingcontext.REQUIRED_EXTENSION_MISSING )
Our "font" class takes care of creating the display-lists which perform the actual rendering of characters. The Win32ui calls are loosely the same as those seen in the tutorial.
class font: def __init__(self, context): self.base = glGenLists(96) # Storage For 96 Characters wgldc = wglGetCurrentDC() if wgldc > sys.maxint: import struct print 'too-large wgldc', wgldc wgldc = struct.unpack( '>i', struct.pack( '>I', wgldc ))[0] print 'Converted wgldc to', wgldc dc = win32ui.CreateDCFromHandle( wgldc ) ## pitch and family value f = win32ui.CreateFont( { 'italic': 0, #use of None is required, 0 doesn't work 'underline': 0, #use of None is required, 0 doesn't work 'name': 'Times New Roman', 'weight': 700, 'height': 20, } ) dc.SelectObject( f )
Build 96 bitmaps as display lists starting from character 32.
wglUseFontBitmaps(wgldc, 32, 96, self.base)
f is deleted here, if it is deleted before the display-lists are created they will just use the default font!
def __del__(self): glDeleteLists(self.base, 96) # Delete All 96 Characters def draw(self, text):
glCallLists is pretty much tailor-made for these kinds of calls, a single GL call can render an entire string of text. Note, however, that glCallLists is now deprecated.
glCallLists( map( lambda x, y: ord(x) - 32 + y, text, [self.base]*len(text) ) )
The timer class here is a trivial wrapping of the wxPython timer class. Real-world OpenGLContext code would likely use the Timer class instance.
import wx class timer(wx.Timer): def __init__(self, parent): wx.Timer.__init__(self) self.parent = parent def Notify(self): if self.parent: self.parent.cnt1+=0.051 self.parent.cnt2+=0.005
Trigger a redraw using wxPython operation
self.parent.Refresh() else: self.Stop() class TestContext( wxInteractiveContext ): ## rot = 0 cnt1 = 0 cnt2 = 0 def OnInit( self ): f = wx.Font( 20, wx.DECORATIVE, wx.NORMAL, wx.NORMAL, 0, "Script", ) self.SetFont( f ) self.my_font = font( self ) self.timer = None def Render( self, mode): wxInteractiveContext.Render( self, mode ) glDisable(GL_LIGHTING) glRasterPos2f(5*cos(self.cnt1), 5*sin(self.cnt2)) self.my_font.draw("NeHe - %3.2f" % self.cnt1) if self.timer is None: self.timer = timer(self) self.timer.Start(25) if __name__ == "__main__": import wx class MyApp(wx.App): def OnInit(self): frame = wx.Frame( None, -1, "NeHe GL Text Demo", wx.DefaultPosition, wx.Size(600,300), ) self.SetTopWindow(frame) frame.Show( True ) win = TestContext(frame) return True app = MyApp(0) app.MainLoop()
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