Hi, I''m using NEHE''s tut 24 to print text to the screen, that it reads from a string... I''m wondering if I just missed it, or is there no symbol (like \n when using cout in consoles)??? In case you don''t know the lesson 24, the code looks like this: GLvoid glPrint(GLint x, GLint y, int set, const char *fmt, ...) // Where The Printing Happens { char text[1024]; // Holds Our String va_list ap; // Pointer To List Of Arguments if (fmt == NULL) // If There''s No Text return; // Do Nothing va_start(ap, fmt); // Parses The String For Variables vsprintf(text, fmt, ap); // And Converts Symbols To Actual Numbers va_end(ap); // Results Are Stored In Text if (set>1) // Did User Choose An Invalid Character Set? { set=1; // If So, Select Set 1 (Italic) } glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); // Enable Texture Mapping glLoadIdentity(); // Reset The Modelview Matrix glTranslated(x,y,0); // Position The Text (0,0 - Top Left) glListBase(base-32+(128*set)); // Choose The Font Set (0 or 1) glScalef(0.8f,0.9f,1.0f); // Make The Text 1.2X Taller glCallLists(strlen(text),GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text); // Write The Text To The Screen glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); // Disable Texture Mapping glLoadIdentity(); } I''m wondering about the ap pointer and parsing the list for variables... it seems there must be some way of telling it that a certain symbol should initiate a new line... thanks for any help in advance norleaf -------------------------------------------------------------- What''s the problem? I don''t got a problem, I got fuckin'' problems! -Tim Roth, Four Rooms

New line isn''t just another character. For it to work, you need to reposition the rest of the text. For example, in a console, when you print a new line, the cursor is moved down one line, moved to the start of the line, and then the rest of the text is drawn from there. You have to do the same thing. When you reach a new line character, you must stop drawing, move the position down one line, move it back to the start, and start drawing again. So split the string on each new line character into several smaller strings and draw them separately.