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I have been adding GL Galore support for my platformer and noticed TextOut() call kills the program.

Otherwise, I am liking it and get constant nice frame rate with my program.

Right, this is a bug. It shouldn't crash. I'll fix this. However, generally speaking, using TextOut() with GL Galore is not a good idea because TextOut() doesn't make use of hardware acceleration so it will slow down your drawing. A better idea would be to store the characters you need in a hardware brush and then do the text drawing yourself.

airsoftsoftwair wrote:A better idea would be to store the characters you need in a hardware brush and then do the text drawing yourself.

Yep, I will add support for some popular bitmap font generator output format into my framework.

Ok, so this was a bug in Hollywood's plugin interface, not in GL Galore. Fixed now.

I added initial support for AngelCode.com Bitmap Font Generator output files into my framework.