JOGL curve based text renderer

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#1

Hello,

Does anyone have experience with getting the new curve based text renderer to work? We’d like to get around the limitations of the AWT renderer (the inability to change font/fontsize without using a separate TextRenderer instance, to name one). There’s almost no documentation and examples of the new system are sparse. Wondering if anyone has any simple, working examples using this new system.

#2

Hi

Sven plans to add a step-by-step tutorial to explain how to use the new text renderer. The legacy renderer is enough if you don’t target embedded platforms despite its limitations.

Edit.: You can find an example here:
https://github.com/sgothel/jogl/blob/master/src/test/com/jogamp/opengl/test/junit/graph/demos/GPUUISceneNewtDemo02.java

#3

Thanks,

For now I can stick with AWT as we are working strictly in 2D and it already is set up nicely to do a black outline around the text. Mainly the switch would be a convenience factor as now we need to maintain a map of TextRenderers for various fonts/sizes, along with an enum for each.