Re: Pango with OpenGL on Android (and desktop linux)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Thanks Ralph for sharing.  I've taken a note of the project.

On 14-10-01 09:27 PM, Ralph Thomas wrote:
> Hi Pango people,
>
> I made a game for Android[1] with a friend this summer -- I wrote a minimal UI
> toolkit that draws with OpenGL directly. I struggled for a while on text
> (Android doesn't give you access to the shaped glyphs and offsets) before
> building Pango and its dependencies for Android and writing a new renderer
> that emits geometry and a glyph cache suitable for use with OpenGL.
>
> My code (as well as a script to build pango et al with NDK) is available here:
>
>   https://github.com/iamralpht/letterplex
>
> I don't have any examples of usage in there yet, but I'm happy to add some if
> there's any interest. It uses the freetype backend, so doesn't depend on
> Cairo. It supports colored text, but doesn't yet implement rect drawing (so no
> backgrounds, underlines or strikethroughs).
>
> I was incredibly grateful to be able to get nice looking text without too much
> work. My library links against a regular build of pango (that's what the
> Makefile does) so if there's interest in making a traditionally packaged
> library out of it, or integrating it into pango proper then I'd like to help
> facilitate that.
>
> Thanks!
> Ralph
>
> [1]:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infinite_imagination.letterplex
>
>
>
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