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- From: misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel)
- Subject: Re: Can I use the font mgr within a gl object?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.183509.12724@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <7202@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 18:35:09 GMT
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- In article <7202@charon.cwi.nl>, jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:
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- > I've been trying to use strings printed through the font manager (with
- > fmprstr()) within gl objects, i.e. between makeobj() and closeobj().
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- You can call callfunc() to call a function that calls fmprstr(). This
- works (I've done it); but SGI is now advising people not to use callfunc().
-
- > Alternatively, I would also be helped if there is some way to render fm
- > strings into an incore bitmap (so I can simply lrectwrite() the bitmap
- > to the screen whenever I need it).
-
- Can you render the strings to the screen, and then do an lrectread()?
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- misrael@csi.uottawa.ca Mark Israel
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