Can you be a bit more specific than 'does not work'? Do you see any text at all? Do you see anything at all? Are you able to draw other text correctly?

Can you show the code where you create distance_1? That will probably be the most useful thing to see since you say the drawNumber("456",-0.95,0.9); does work correctly, that suggests there's a problem with your string.

to use that you need to setup ortho etc. anyway you use opengl 2.0 and you use fixed function pipeline when you should use shaders.

void glWriteTEXT(int X,int Y, AnsiString text)
{
  glPushAttrib(GL_DEPTH_TEST);  // Save the current Depth test settings (Used for blending )
  glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);     // Turn off depth testing (otherwise we get no FPS)


  glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);  // Switch to the projection matrix
  glPushMatrix();               // Save current projection matrix
  glLoadIdentity();

//  GetWindowRect(GetDesktopWindow(), drawRect);  // Get current window size
  glOrtho(0, WINDOW_WIDTH, 0, WINDOW_HEIGHT, -1, 1);  // Change the projection matrix using an orthgraphic projection
  glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);  // Return to the modelview matrix
  glPushMatrix();              // Save the current modelview matrix
  glLoadIdentity();
 // glColor3f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);    // Text color

  glRasterPos2i(X, Y);                                // Position the Text
  glPushAttrib(GL_LIST_BIT);                          // Save's the current base list
  glListBase(base);                              // Set the base list to our character list
  glCallLists(text.Length(), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text.c_str());  // Display the text
  glPopAttrib();                                      // Restore the old base list

  glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);  //Switch to projection matrix
  glPopMatrix();                // Restore the old projection matrix
  glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);   // Return to modelview matrix
  glPopMatrix();                // Restore old modelview matrix
 // glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);      // Turn on textures, don't want our text textured
 // glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
  glPopAttrib();                // Restore depth testing


}

WiredCat now that looks easy. No additional libs like glut needed? Thanks for the code, I'll try tomorrow.

Beware of unspecified dependencies.

AnsiString text

What is "AnsiString"? A custom class? Something from a library? Which library?

glListBase(base); // Set the base list to our character list
glCallLists(text.Length(), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text.c_str()); // Display the text

What is base? Where does it's value come from? What is used to generate the display lists? Where are they generated? Does this generation have any other dependencies?

void BuildFont(unsigned int  & Ufont)
{

HFONT font;

  Ufont = glGenLists(256);                  // Generate enough display lists to hold

  font = CreateFont(22,                           // height of font
			 0,                             // average character width
			 0,                             // angle of escapement
			 0,                             // base-line orientation angle
			 FW_BOLD,                       // font weight
			 0,			            // italic
			 0,                             // underline
			 0,			            // strikeout
			 DEFAULT_CHARSET,                  // character set
			 OUT_TT_PRECIS,	            // output precision
			 CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,           // clipping precision
			 ANTIALIASED_QUALITY,           // output quality
			 FF_DONTCARE || DEFAULT_PITCH,  // pitch and family
			 "Courier New");                     // font

  SelectObject((*dc), font);               // Sets the new font as the current font in the device context
  wglUseFontBitmaps((*dc), 0, 256, Ufont);  // Creates a set display lists containing the bitmap fonts


}

AnsiString can be std::string

where BuildFont(base);

and where unsigned int base;

but my point was that you didnt se proper perspective projection for using glrasterpos

you should anyway use shaders, and one texture where you have all font characters, and quit using old stuff ;] ;p

OK, so it's platform-specific to Windows then.