Hi J-S,
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:50 -0500, Jean-Sebastien Guay wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have seen some messages on this list about people who used the FTGLText
> class.
> I like to use it too, and just want to see what I need to do to be able to.
>
> >From what I can see the code is still in Contrib in the 1.6 version. Would
> >it be
> possible to compile it into the libs anyway, or create a new lib just for
> that?
We haven't gotten around to that, and will probably change the structure
for 2.0 anyway, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.
> Also, there's a patch in the same directory as the sources. Is that patch
> necessary?
If you use a current version, no (and it's not in CVS anymore). The
patch was necessary to make FTGL play nice with OpenSG's GL object
handling, but with the latest changes to that stock FTGL works fine.
> The reason I ask is that I'll be using this program on machines on which I
> can't
> install libraries in the default search paths, so I'm trying to find a
> (mostly)
> painless way of doing this. What I think I might end up doing is to compile
> the
> FTGLText and other related sources to a library, and patching FTGL and naming
> the resulting lib 'ftgl_opensg' or something so that I can include it into my
> program easily. Does that seem like a good idea or is there a better way of
> doing it?
See above, you shouldn't have to do that any more.
Hope it helps
Dirk
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click
_______________________________________________
Opensg-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
