   Freetype rendering solid blocks
  i just begain using freetype to render my 2d textbefore i had been using windows to generate the text for me with wglUseFontBitmaps and whateverso i have freetype set up and render the chars but all it spits out is solid blocks basically the size of the text (it IS size correctly however)but the code is the same as that from the NeHe turorial (44 i think)GUIFont::GUIFont(const char* fn, int fontsize){    // initalize Freetype and create a bitmap for the fonts    int* Bitmap = new int[BitmapSize*BitmapSize];    memset(Bitmap, 0, BitmapSize*BitmapSize*sizeof(int));    CharHeight = 0;   FT_Library library;    FT_Face face;   if( FT_Init_FreeType( &library ) )    {   //... an error occurred during library initialization ...   throw FatalError("Cannot Initalize the FreeType Library");    }    if( FT_New_Face( library, fn, 0, &face ) )    {   //... an error occurred during library initialization ...   throw FatalError("Cannot Initalize the FreeType Face");    }   FT_Set_Char_Size(face,fontsize << 6,fontsize << 6,96,96);DisplayListID = glGenLists(256);    //* TAKEN FROM TA SPRING *//    int tex_x=0,tex_y=0;    for (unsigned int c=0; c<256; c++){   if( FT_Load_Glyph(face, FT_Get_Char_Index(face, c), FT_LOAD_DEFAULT) )throw FatalError("FT_Load_Glyph failed");// load glyphFT_Glyph glyph;if( FT_Get_Glyph(face->glyph, &glyph) )throw FatalError("FT_Get_Glyph failed");// render glyph to bitmapif( FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap(&glyph, ft_render_mode_normal, NULL, 1) )throw FatalError("FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap failed");FT_BitmapGlyph glyph_bitmap = (FT_BitmapGlyph)glyph;int width  = glyph_bitmap->bitmap.width;int height = glyph_bitmap->bitmap.rows;if (height>CharHeight)  CharHeight=height;if (tex_x+width>=256) {tex_y += static_cast<int>(CharHeight)+1;tex_x=0;}// render glyph bitmap to texturefor (int y=0; y<glyph_bitmap->bitmap.rows; y++) {for (int x=0; x<glyph_bitmap->bitmap.width; x++) {char shade = glyph_bitmap->bitmap.buffer[x+y*glyph_bitmap->bitmap.pitch];int color = ((int)shade << 24) | 0x00ffffff;Bitmap[(tex_x+x)+(tex_y+y)*TEXSIZE] = color;}}if( false )////** dumps each bitmap **////{/*...*/}CharWidths[c]=glyph->advance.x / (float)0x10000;// set up display list//*this works*//tex_x += width+1;// discard glyphFT_Done_Glyph(glyph);}//**//CreateBitmap("Font.bmp",256,256,(void*)Bitmap,32);   glGenTextures(1, &TextureID);glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, TextureID);glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 4, TEXSIZE, TEXSIZE, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, Bitmap);   FT_Done_FreeType(library);    delete [] Bitmap;}i can't find any diffrence between the taspring and NeHe tutorial that would cause freetype to spit out squaresfont.jpg(in the bitmap the squares are solid white and the background is pure black)can any one point out where im going wrong[Edited by - SW INC on December 2, 2005 11:28:00 PM]
  I had the same problem. It has something to do with a version mismatch between NeHe and the latest freetype version (api shift or whatnot?)Try removing the "FT_Get_Char_Index(face, c)" and just replacing it with "c".If that doesn't work, you might have to dig through the freetype docs/tutorial/example and figure what the differences are between it and the NeHe code.   