Re: [Visualpython-users] More VPython-wx progress

That is great news!  Thanks for you continued work on VPython.  --jv

On 11/29/2012 4:03 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Thanks to some help from experts in the wxPython forum, for the first 
> time I managed to display text on an object, using 
> platform-independent code. It's not yet part of the VPython-wx 
> experimental package, because I have to integrate this capability with 
> the label machinery, but this was the last issue preventing the 
> elimination of platform-dependent code.
>
> The key breakthrough was to realize that wxPython has functions for 
> writing 2D text and graphics to an off-screen bitmap and then reading 
> back the numeric data from the bitmap. This array of data can be 
> passed to the existing numeric texture option in VPython. This 
> capability can be exploited by the label object, but it will also make 
> it possible to place text on any object.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
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