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Graphics / sf::String rendering issue

« on: December 30, 2011, 03:06:05 pm »

Greetings! I've been trying desperately to fix this issue myself, but after 4 hours, I'm admitting defeat and asking for help.

The error I'm experiencing is that the entire window turns black - with the exception of the string - after the string has been rendered. I've played around (A LOT) with attempting to render the string on top of the existing stuff by calling Display() twice per loop, and a billion other smaller unsuccessful tweaks.

This leads be to believe that the issue is caused by an OpenGL-state floating around inside the machine - which renders (get it? ho ho) me useless, should this be the case.

The minimal code required is:

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int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
sf::RenderWindow App;
App.Create(sf::VideoMode(1280, 720, 32), "snb", sf::Style::Resize | sf::Style::Close);

sf::Font font;
font.LoadFromFile("Times New Roman.ttf");

sf::String str("This is a string.", font);

while (App.IsOpened())
{
App.Clear();

glColor3f(1, 1, 1);
glLineWidth(10.f);

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN);
glVertex2f(0, 0);
glVertex2f(1280, 0);
glVertex2f(1280, 720);
glVertex2f(0, 720);
glEnd();

                //Comment this line, and behold the beautiful white background
App.Draw(str);

App.Display();
}
}


I've tried setting glMatrixMode's, glOrtho, glLoadIdentity and all other glFunctions I use from time to time without luck.

Also, as a side issue : I can only load external resources (sprites etc) when running in admin mode. Is there a way around this? Know that this is not what is causing the rendering to fail.

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General discussions / [SOLVED]SFML 1.6 error with Code::Blocks 10.05

« on: May 15, 2011, 09:27:18 pm »

EDIT:

I googled one of the specific errors I got, and found a thread on this forum I didn't look into because the title looked unrelated

Anyways, the main problem was the order in which I linked the libraries, and various other mistakes made. I'm posting the link to the thread that helped me, hoping it might help someone else.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=28272&sid=95d57818ea4964d0300e4c027a3cbb25