DrawText ignores newline characters?

[Pastaspace]

I've got a string that has a newline in it, IE something like

string s_myString = "Hello \n world.";

But I noticed that while normally said string would be output on two lines. When using DrawText, it wouldn't show the newline character, but wouldn't put the next bit of text on a new line.

Am I missing something here, or is that just a limitation of DrawText?

[BluHornet]

It has been a minute since I used c++ but if I remember right there are no line breaks in a sting. If you need to break lines you need to use 2 strings. the newline character is used in cout if you are making a console program. I could remember wrong though.

[beo6]

have a look at this thread:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/12374-multiple-text-gui/page__hl__line%20break

[Pastaspace]

Mmm, I know how to do multiple line stuff like that just fine, what I'm trying to do is limit the number of times I call DrawText, because it seems to significantly slow things down.

[beo6]

if DrawText is really slowing something down there is definetly something else wrong.

Why should writing text be so hardware intensive?

[Pastaspace]

I asked myself the same question, and it definitely is DrawText, nothing else in the code slows things down, and eliminating those lines speeds things back up to normal. After more than a few calls, like 8 or so, it starts to drop about 12 FPS, and then it just goes down from there.

[Josh]

DrawText() tends to be fairly slow. It's doing a draw call for every single character and there is a lot of setup code for each call. If you're just displaying the FPS or printing the health it's not a big deal, but you don't want to be displaying lots of lots of text with that command. It would be a lot better to render to a texture and then draw the texture onscreen, if the text isn't changing. Of course, you've got to be drawing a lot of text before it will start to matter, so it depends on what you are doing.

[Pastaspace]

Rendering text relating to dialogue, inventory, stats, general RPG stuff.

The text usually doesn't change that much while accessing these menus (there's highlighting if you mouse over it and that's about it), how would I go about rendering to a texture? Even a few frames saved is nice.