Ok, I'm a lazy bastard. Not only did I go for the lazy way of getting the window Z order to work, but for text alignment I create the glyphs as if they were left aligned, then after they're created, I change the X coordinate. They're not visible anyway (I.e. not in the scene graph), so there's no penalty for screwing with the scene graph.

So, hopefully by the end of today, my font code will be done. And there's not too much else to do for the GUI stuff. So I'm likely to go off at a tangent at some point, as I always do.

I've ordered Visual C# 2005 Step by Step, since I've finally decided to learn C#. So I'm going to try and get Visual C# set up on my laptop, and I'll be doing C# stuff for a while I expect (That'll be my tangent).
The reason being, this whole XNA framework with the Xbox 360 jazz that's going on. I'd like to be able to develop console demos and things, even if it's just more stuff to go on a CV or just for giggles. And the XNA framework is C# only at present.
That, and I expect C++ to go the way C is going soonish.

So, you'll no doubt see me posting a crapload of C# questions soon enough. And probably bitching here about not being alowed to do stupid and dangerous things like you can in C++ :P

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