In some of the code I've been porting over from jogl I've got text intermeshed with ogl… now, in jogl this isn't a big deal, the GLUT library allows me to use bitmaps and other things directly inside the opengl layer.
Does anyone know of a part of JME that will allow me to display text inside the OGL layer?
This could be a way to get out of the OGL layer (a command like Display.GET OUT OF OGL – which i'm very sure doesn't exist :D) or a way to use the Text object inside of OGL.
I don't think there's a way to do it, but any help would be appreciated.
I'd like to avoid porting code, but I will if I have to.
thx,
timo
i'm not sure i understand what you mean (i suppose that's also the reason nobody responded until now). could you explain a bit more? 
edit: typo
sure
Renanse is working on one part of this, kind of.
The issue is that I want to use text while I'm inside the openGL calls. I can't use the Text object in jme b/c it won't "jive" with the OGL calls. It is possible that when Renanse finishes his changes to the invalidateStates portion that I'll find a workaround to use Text in the OGL area.
I was hoping for a Font or Text object that is jme that can be used with OGL without having to rewrite a set of code like those from the LWJGL forums… or Kev Glass' code to work with JME.
I didn't want to do work that had already been done.
then i'm afraid i can't help much, specially because i don't know what you are doing with the text. sorry.
are you sure you have to do it that way? the refactoring might be worth the effort.
The Text itself is integrated with the OGL. I was hoping that there was a way to turn off GL and then turn it on so I could use both, but that isn't possible.
I've done the refactoring, and it works ok. Once Renanse' change is in then I can test it fully with JME
i'm glad to hear that you managed to fix it 
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