Best way to draw text with OpenGL and Cocoa?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53309

  •  09-06-2019
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Question

Does anyone know an easy way to draw arbitrary text in a Cocoa NSOpenGLView? I have a couple of constraints.

  • The text on screen may change from frame to frame (for example, a framerate display in the corner)
  • I would like to be able to select any font installed on the system at any size
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Solution

Have you taken a look at the Cocoa OpenGL sample code? It includes "a texture class for strings, showing how to use an NSImage to write a string into and then texture from for high quality font rendering."

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