Graphics.Rendering.FTGL

• Author: Jefferson Heard (jefferson.r.heard at gmail.com)
• Copyright 2008 Renaissance Computing Institute http://www.renci.org
• License: GNU LGPL
• Compatibility GHC (I could change the data declarations to not be empty and that would make it more generally compatible, I believe)
• Description:

Use FreeType 2 Fonts in OpenGL. Requires the FTGL library and FreeType libraries. available at http://ftgl.wiki.sourceforge.net/ . The most important functions for everyday use are renderFont and the create*Font family of functions. To render a simple string inside OpenGL, assuming you have OpenGL initialized and a current pen color, all you need is:

do font <- createTextureFont "Font.ttf"
  setFontFaceSize font 24 72
  renderFont font "Hello world!" Front

Fonts are rendered so that a single point is an OpenGL unit, and a point is 1:72 of an inch.

Documentation

fcreateBitmapFont :: CString -> IO Font

createBitmapFont :: String -> IO Font

Create a bitmapped version of a TrueType font. Bitmapped versions will not | respond to matrix transformations, but rather must be transformed using the | raster positioning functions in OpenGL

fcreateBufferFont :: CString -> IO Font

createBufferFont :: String -> IO Font

Create a buffered version of a TrueType font. This stores the entirety of | a string in a texture, "buffering" it before rendering. Very fast if you | will be repeatedly rendering the same strings over and over.

fcreateOutlineFont :: CString -> IO Font

createOutlineFont :: String -> IO Font

Create an outline version of a TrueType font. This uses actual geometry | and will scale independently without loss of quality. Faster than polygons | but slower than texture or buffer fonts.

fcreatePixmapFont :: CString -> IO Font

createPixmapFont :: String -> IO Font

Create a pixmap version of a TrueType font. Higher quality than the bitmap | font without losing any performance. Use this if you don't mind using | set and get RasterPosition.

fcreatePolygonFont :: CString -> IO Font

createPolygonFont :: String -> IO Font

Create polygonal display list fonts. These scale independently without | losing quality, unlike texture or buffer fonts, but can be impractical | for large amounts of text because of the high number of polygons needed. | Additionally, they do not, unlike the textured fonts, create artifacts | within the square formed at the edge of each character.

fcreateTextureFont :: CString -> IO Font

createTextureFont :: String -> IO Font

Create textured display list fonts. These can scale somewhat well, | but lose quality quickly. They are much faster than polygonal fonts, | though, so are suitable for large quantities of text. Especially suited | well to text that changes with most frames, because it doesn't incur the | (normally helpful) overhead of buffering.

fcreateExtrudeFont :: CString -> IO Font

createExtrudeFont :: String -> IO Font

Create a 3D extruded font. This is the only way of creating 3D fonts | within FTGL. Could be fun to use a geometry shader to get different | effects by warping the otherwise square nature of the font. Polygonal. | Scales without losing quality. Slower than all other fonts.

createSimpleLayout :: IO Layout

Create a simple layout

setLayoutFont :: Layout -> Font -> IO ()

Set the layout's font.

fgetLayoutFont :: Layout -> IO Font

getLayoutFont :: Layout -> IO Font

Get the embedded font from the Layout

setLayoutLineLength :: Layout -> CFloat -> IO ()

Set the line length, I believe in OpenGL units, although I'm not sure.

fgetLayoutLineLength :: Layout -> IO CFloat

getLayoutLineLength :: Layout -> IO Float

Get the line length in points (1:72in) of lines in the layout

fsetLayoutAlignment :: Layout -> CInt -> IO ()

setLayoutAlignment :: Layout -> TextAlignment -> IO ()

Set the layout alignment

fgetLayoutAlignment :: Layout -> IO CInt

getLayoutAlignment :: Layout -> IO TextAlignment

Get the alignment of text in this layout.

fsetLayoutLineSpacing :: Layout -> CFloat -> IO ()

setLayoutLineSpacing :: Layout -> Float -> IO ()

Set layout line spacing in OpenGL units.

destroyFont :: Font -> IO ()

Destroy a font

fattachFile :: Font -> CString -> IO ()

attachFile :: Font -> String -> IO ()

Attach a metadata file to a font.

attachData :: Font -> Ptr () -> IO ()

Attach some external data (often kerning) to the font

fsetFontCharMap :: Font -> CInt -> IO ()

Set the font's character map

setCharMap :: Font -> CharMap -> IO ()

fgetFontCharMapCount :: Font -> IO CInt

getFontCharMapCount :: Font -> Int

Get the number of characters loaded into the current charmap for the font.

fgetFontCharMapList :: Font -> IO (Ptr CInt)

getFontCharMapList :: Font -> Ptr CInt

Get the different character mappings available in this font.

fsetFontFaceSize :: Font -> CInt -> CInt -> IO CInt

setFontFaceSize :: Font -> Int -> Int -> IO CInt

fgetFontFaceSize :: Font -> IO CInt

getFontFaceSize :: Font -> IO Int

Get the current font face size in points.

fsetFontDepth :: Font -> CFloat -> IO ()

setFontDepth :: Font -> Float -> IO ()

fsetFontOutset :: Font -> CFloat -> CFloat -> IO ()

setFontOutset :: Font -> Float -> Float -> IO ()

fgetFontBBox :: Font -> CString -> Int -> Ptr CFloat -> IO ()

getFontBBox :: Font -> String -> IO [Float]

Get the text extents of a string as a list of (llx,lly,lly,urx,ury,urz)

fgetFontAscender :: Font -> CFloat

getFontAscender :: Font -> Float

Get the global ascender height for the face.

fgetFontDescender :: Font -> CFloat

getFontDescender :: Font -> Float

Gets the global descender height for the face.

fgetFontLineHeight :: Font -> CFloat

getFontLineHeight :: Font -> Float

Gets the global line spacing for the face.

fgetFontAdvance :: Font -> CString -> IO CFloat

getFontAdvance :: Font -> String -> IO Float

Get the horizontal span of a string of text using the current font. Input as the xcoord | in any translate operation

frenderFont :: Font -> CString -> CInt -> IO ()

renderFont :: Font -> String -> RenderMode -> IO ()

Render a string of text in the current font.

fgetFontError :: Font -> IO CInt

getFontError :: Font -> IO Int

Get any errors associated with loading a font. FIXME return should be a type, not an Int.

destroyLayout :: Layout -> IO ()

frenderLayout :: Layout -> CString -> IO ()

renderLayout :: Layout -> String -> IO ()

Render a string of text within a layout.

fgetLayoutError :: Layout -> IO CInt

getLayoutError :: Layout -> IO CInt

Get any errors associated with a layout.

data RenderMode

Whether or not in polygonal or extrusion mode, the font will render equally front and back

Constructors

Front

Back

Side

All

data TextAlignment

In a Layout directed render, the layout mode of the text

Constructors

AlignLeft

AlignCenter

AlignRight

Justify

marshalRenderMode :: RenderMode -> CInt

marshalTextAlignment :: TextAlignment -> CInt

readTextAlignment :: CInt -> TextAlignment

data GlyphOpaque

An opaque type encapsulating a glyph in C. Currently the glyph functions are unimplemented in Haskell.

data FontOpaque

An opaque type encapsulating a font in C.

data LayoutOpaque

An opaque type encapsulating a layout in C

type Glyph = Ptr GlyphOpaque

type Font = Ptr FontOpaque

type Layout = Ptr LayoutOpaque

data CharMap

Constructors

EncodingNone

EncodingMSSymbol

EncodingUnicode

EncodingSJIS

EncodingGB2312

EncodingBig5

EncodingWanSung

EncodingJohab

EncodingAdobeStandard

EncodingAdobeExpert

EncodingAdobeCustom

EncodingAdobeLatin1

EncodingOldLatin2

EncodingAppleRoman

encodeTag :: Char -> Char -> Char -> Char -> CInt

marshalCharMap :: CharMap -> CInt