Hi, I am rendering text to windows in D3D9, but my problem is that if one window overlaps another window, the text from both windows appears on top. I didn''t see a way to change the depth of the text, tell me if I''m wrong. Am I going to have to use the clipping rectangle to clip the text on all of the inactive windows or is there another way to do this? Should I go into the effort of rendering the text to a texture everytime the text changes (shouldn''t be that often), and just apply the texture instead? I figure this would cut down on cpu time as well as allow for depth. I''m using transformed vertices for the windows. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Chris

Well, I was doing something wrong. I was rendering all of the windows, then all of the text from every window. I changed that and render the window, then it''s text, then the next window, starting with the window on the bottom and moving up to the topmost window. Sadly, it still drew the text on top of each other. I am using a D3DXSprite to optimize the rendering too, and that is what''s getting me. I disabled the sprite and just starting drawing text as it should and it works now, but at an increase in cpu usage. Oh well, I''ll go see if D3DXSprite has some flag I can set to make it work.

Thanks for the quick response!
Chris