I tightened up my graphics. My font manager now squishes all the glyphs together onto the texture instead of listening to the GDI's text metrics (Which fucking lie) and using 64x64 regions for each glyph. The GetTextMetrics function says that the widest glyph in the 12pt ariel font is 62px wide. Wtf. So I went and checked. It's fucking lying - Calling GetTextExtentsPt32W (Or whatever it's called) on each ofthe 65536 characters tells me the widest glyph is 16px wide.

So anyway, I now just increase X by the width of the glyph on the texture, and I keep track of the tallest glyph on that row so I can advance downwards a bit more whenI run out of space on that row. I was quite surprised that it worked first time.

The main reason I was doing what I did before was so I could unload random glyphs whenever I wanted to. However, that's just silly - why would I ever need to? I added the ability to trash all textures used by a font, which will free texture memory, at the risk of duffing up any fonts that are active. Still, useful for doing when changing graphics state (E.g. front end -> in game).

Still to do: Word wrap. Once that's done, I'm considering my 2d engine code "Done". I can do pretty much anything I want now, I can draw 2d quads (sprites) with or without a texture, blended with a (single, not per-vertex) diffuse colour, I can draw text in a rectangle with left, center, right, top, middle, bottom alignment (Like DrawText()), I'll soon have word wrapping, and the fonts can be any system font, unicode, bold, italic, stikeout, underline or any combination of the above.
I'm debating doing 3D stuff just now or not. I want to have a bit of a code tidy / optimize, then I'll probably release what I have for people to play with / inspect.

I have a weeks holiday at the start of September, so I want to get some serious work done to TEH MMORPG!!1 (As in, working 9 hours a day or so on it), and I'd like to get some articles and things written for both my site and GameDev.Net if they want them. Articles I'm going to be writing include:

Using Ogg Voribs to play streaming music with DirectSound

Creating a generic resource manager

Creating a texture manager with texture palettes in D3D9

ID3DXFont and ID3DXSprite: How do they work?
And I have more on my list at home, but that's all I can think of just now.

Let me know if there's any others you'd like to see.