VCL Component (TOpenGLAPPanel)

Fixes for typecasting error in Get3DTextSize, DrawText2D and DrawText3D.

Remember to change the range for FirstGlyph and NumGlyph to 0 and 255 to get the full range of characters.

Download TOpenGLAPPanel 1.2.0 (274.37 kB Downloaded 163 times)OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

June 20th, 2010 | Category: TOpenGLAPPanel | 2 comments

VCL Component (TOpenGLAPPanel)

Another bug has slipped through my testing.
The Get3DTextSize() contained a small error that caused 1 character length string to be ignored.

Download TOpenGLAPPanel 1.1.9 (366.05 KB Downloaded 211 times)OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

May 2nd, 2010 | Category: RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | 6 comments

FBO and Bitmap Layer Demo

This is a demonstration of rendering to frame buffer objects (FBO)
and then transfer the buffer to a TBitmap  to use the
UpdateLayeredWindow feature in windows to handle transparency.

Download Bitmap Layer Demo 1.1 (1.06 MB Downloaded 231 times)Demonstration of FBO (frame buffer objects)

April 21st, 2010 | Category: OpenGL Demo, RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | One comment

Demo of OpenGL Text 2D/3D

Small application to demonstrate the use of 2D text and 3D text features of TOpenGLAPPanel.

Download Clock 2D/3D Text Demo 1.0 (476.5 KB Downloaded 368 times)Demonstrates the use of 2D and 3D Text in OpenGL

March 21st, 2010 | Category: OpenGL Demo, RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | 4 comments

VCL Component

Due to a few bugs found in my TOpenGLAPPanel i’m releasing an update.
Draw2DText, Draw3DText and Get3DTextSize contained a Unicode error, so I desided to go back to good old char * in those functions.

Download TOpenGLAPPanel 1.1.8 (273.73 KB Downloaded 260 times)OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010.
This release contains bugs in Get3DTextSize. Please use [...]

February 27th, 2010 | Category: RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | 2 comments

Lesson 2

One of my old tutorials, gives you the first impression on how to use my OpenGL VCL component.

Download OpenGL Lesson 2 First Polygon (467.05 KB Downloaded 341 times)This is a very simple tutorial. It shows the basic of adding a triangle, and a square to the screen.
Example created Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010.
(Based on example from [...]

January 23rd, 2010 | Category: OpenGL Demo, RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | Leave a comment

VCL Component

Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 has been out for a while, and normally I’m digging up my old OpenGL VCL component, and making sure that it is compiling.

This time it took a little bit longer but download it here below, or go to my download page (you can find it on top of my page).

Download TOpenGLAPPanel [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Category: RAD Studio 2010, TOpenGLAPPanel | Leave a comment