Tim Blechmann wrote:

hi all,

i wrote a gem patch on linux, that behaves differently on windoze:

it's basically this setup:

|gemhead| | |color| | |text2d|

it seems, that i can't change the settings of the |color| object. especially setting the alpha value doesn't work on windows.

well, your patch shouldn't do anything when setting the alpha-value on any machine, since alpha-blending is turned off by default.

apart from that:

since it's working fine on my linux machine (gem/cvs, nvidia binary driver) i think it's an issue of either the windows driver on the other machine (iirc an ati dualhead card) or an issue of the gem-0.90.1 binary (haven't been able to test the current cvs ... no development environment on that machine).

gem-0.90.1 for w32 is build with FTGL support; the changelog of FTGL says (FTGL-1.0b3; August 8 2001) <snip> Pixmap fonts can now be in colour. It uses the current colour when the font is CREATED. This isn't ideal but is better than the alternatives. </snip>

it furthermore says (FTGL-2.1.2; 11 December 2004) <snip> hanged the way the colour is specified for Pixmap fonts. It can now be done per string rather than at start up as previous. </snip>

probably this is related to your problem (i don't remember which FTGL-version is used to link against gem-0.90.1; but according to the date it might well be that i used an earlier version)

mfg.asd.r IOhannes