[sldev] Question involving the rendering of interface windows from someone that doesn't know much about the stuff involved (was Re: Pango (Re: Projects that I'm working on ) )

[Tigro Spottystripes]

I can probably be considered an outsider in regards to the client code,
C(++) programming in general, and the technical, practical and other
limitations involved etc, but I'm curious, what would be in the way of
rendering each interface window to a texture and applying the texture to
a quad with the dimensions of the window ?

ps: is it ok to ask things like this in this list or should I refrain
from doing it again in the future?

Rob Lanphier escreveu:
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> The biggest problem for this solution (and to a lesser extent, our
> existing solution) is that we render the text with every frame. We're
> dabbling with the idea of caching the UI rendering, but getting that
> feature done seems like a nasty task until we get our UI refactored well
> enough to make that a maintainable proposition.
>
> ...
>
> Rob
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