Hi folks, is there a way to get the vertex data from a displaylist? I would like to use wglUseFontOutlines() to create a font and store the vertex data of each glyph in a file, to be able to use the same font on operating systems that don''t support the wgl funktions. What do you think about the idea?

Interesting idea. Not sure, but your best bet is probably to have a look at GLTrace and see if it logs the vertices as the display list is created.

What you''re suggesting, isn''t possible with openGL. However, try getting the Mesa source code, and modifying it to give you a list of the vertices that you are after.

Regards

Hi again,

i currently try to enhance gltrace with a funktion that allows me to enable/disable tracing during runtime. (to be able to just trace the commands that i am interrested in)
Shag, why can''t i use gltrace to capture the vertex data from a font? (i just played a bit with it, maybe i missed something...)

My second idea to capture the vertex data from a font is to modify an open source opengl font library called FTGL. Unfortunatly it''s a verry huge library - thats why i decided to use gltrace.

I did''nt thought about mesa yet, but i''ll take a look at it.
Thanks for your ideas,
XFire