Well, the 3-d portion of my program now has all its (very)basic parts in good working order. But now that I''m trying to create a 2D interface display in the same window, I''m getting nowhere fast. I''ve looked at NeHe''s tuts on bitmap fonts and the game tut with orthographic projection and nothing seems to work. Here is the section of code I''ve been trying to work with for my Interface class: GLvoid CInterface::DrawInterface() { glPushMatrix(); glLoadIdentity(); glOrtho(0.0f, 640, 480, 0.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f); PrintText(180, 20, "OpenGL Text -%7.2f", txtcnt1); glPopMatrix(); } GLvoid CInterface:rintText(GLint x, GLint y, const char *fmt, ...) { char text[256]; va_list ap; if (fmt == NULL) return; va_start(ap, fmt); vsprintf(text, fmt, ap); va_end(ap); glTranslated(x,y,0); glListBase(fontset - 32); glCallLists(strlen(text), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text); } You''ll notice that PrintText() is virtually identical to Nehe''s glPrint(). My thinking was that I could switch projection matrix, do my orthogonal stuff, and then switch back to the original matrix. Like I said, the 3D stuff still works just fine with this code in there, but anything I try to display from within DrawInterface() just doesn''t show up on screen. I also tried drawing just a plain old quad onto the screen but that didn''t work either. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas or can at least point me in the right direction, I''d appreciate it very much

glTranslated(x,y,0)...

i''m not familiar with this function, what does it do?

Anon,
It''s the same as glTranslatef() except with a double precision float. I don''t guess it''s really neccesary over a plain float right now, but Nehe used it so I figured I would too, might need it later

Slayer,
Like I said, I''ve looked over the tuts pretty thoroughly and still can''t figure out what I''m doing wrong. If you could perhaps be more specific I know I''ve overlooked something somewhere, the question is, *exactly* where?

Or do I need to do something with the modelview matrix to get this to work? Guess I''ll try working with that for a while and see what happens.

Daverpermen,

Thank you very much for that info. I really appreciate a detailed response like that:-) It did clear up something I had read in the OpenGL Programming Guide which I wasn''t sure about.

Unfortunately, my text still isn''t displaying even though all my 3D stuff continues to render normally. Somehow, I am starting to suspect that the problem is somewhere in my object based framework.

Anyway, I think I am just going to go home and do some reading in the red book for the rest of the day, try to not sweat the details just yet. It''s obvious that I need to reread chapter 3 on viewing anyway. I''m sure the answer will come in time. And knowing me, it will probably be something silly that I forgot somewhere

Thanks again for your help