Re: The big divide - graphics contexts and window servers

[Adam Fedor]

Jeff Teunissen wrote:

> "Philippe C.D. Robert" wrote:
>
>
> > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > The only problem is that it doesn't natively handle fonts, which is
> > > > really important. There are libraries that add this capability to
> > > > OpenGL, but the best ones are written in C++, which means I'll have
> > > > to write some cumbersome wrappers (ok, NOW I want Objective-C++!).
> > > It's not that OpenGL doesn't handle fonts -- it's that it doesn't
> > > handle text at all. This isn't a bad thing, you just have to _want_ to
> > > reinvent the wheel.
> > Not if you use an existing solution for that purpose...
>
> ...but they all SUCK! :)


Do you know of a free graphics library that doesn't? Every one I have 
looked at has disadvantages.



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