glBitmap and scan-line order

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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Yes, another newbie on glBitmap()

I’ve googled a little and looked at older posts in this forum, but no one seems to wonder, like I do, whether or not there’s a way to get glBitmap to accept bitmaps with “reversed” scan-line order, or at least draw them from top-to-bottom? (as in: My bitmaps are drawn upside-down)

It’s said that glPixelStore influence glBitmap(), but I can’t see anything relevant there.

I have a lot of font files where the data is in this (for 2d rendering) normal order, and I’d like not to have to massage the data on load.

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Why no one wonders ?

  • because textured quads are more powerful/faster
  • because you only need to reverse lines order on file load, that is only once, and that is not gl dependant.
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>Why no one wonders ?

No, that wasn’t the question at all.

A simple “Not possible.” would have sufficed.

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Well actually I am not sure it is “not possible” (too much red wine :stuck_out_tongue: ) so I kept the safe side :slight_smile:

I hope I helped you anyway.