Moving text horizontally

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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at the moment i am trying to learn opengl and have build quite a few functions, but I have come across a bit of an annoying problem, Im trying to move text horizontally by trying to increase x value by 1(first approach) within the drawText function, then I tried looping, eg:

for (; x< 100; x++) {
drawText(x, y, other value, string);
}

but here is the code sniped of drawText:

void drawText(int x, int y, int space, char *s) {

char *e;

//set font
void *f = GLUT_BITMAP_TIMES_ROMAN_24;

// inisilize matrix mode and ortho2D coord
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
gluOrtho2D(0.0, GLUT_WINDOW_WIDTH, 0.0, GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT);

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();

//set colour to values set to 2d array colors
glColor3f(colors[colorFrame][0], colors[colorFrame][1], colors[colorFrame][2]);

//set text position to x and y values to x, y arguments
glRasterPos2i(x, y);
int xpos = x;
	for (e = s; *e != '\0'; e++)
	{
		glutBitmapCharacter(f, *e);
		xpos = xpos + glutBitmapWidth(f, *e) + space;
	}
	
	std::string count = std::to_string(xpos);
	printf("%s

", count.c_str());

// return matrix to previous state
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPopMatrix();

}

at the moment, I am still a newby, so please if you see anything wrong, do let me know.

any suggestions?

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If you’re trying to make a scrolling ticker, your approach is going to be very inefficient. I recommend using whatever text drawing methods you have at your disposal to draw text to an in-memory buffer (such as GDI or GDI+ on Windows, Cairo/Pango on Linux, etc.), then upload that buffer to a texture. Then just slide that texture around as needed.