Hi, my DirectX game currently uses GDI for it''s text (it features lots of text) and I am very mindful of the speed issues inherent with the use of GDI. So I am about to begin removing the GDI functions, and implement some of my own functions to do the same job. Anyway, I guess I can make a text blitter which uses DirectX blitting techniques and a text bitmap surface featuring my different fonts. However, I am wondering if there is anything already prepared for us, because I am sure that this is a very common problem. Perhaps someone has already addresed this problem and made something (text bitmaps and code, though that isn''t absolutely necessary) available to us. Does anyone know if this is the case? And if so, where we can find the code or articles in which this is addressed. If there is nothing available, I shall make my own functions and bitmaps, but I can see this taking two or three days. Any time saver would be fantastic.

If you plan to make bitmaps of fonts and then make your own functions to write them to screen you may be interested in an application from this page http://www.lmnopc.com/ that makes fonts into a bitmap for you. A great time saver.

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