private void init()
{
// Allocate some memory to store the texture ids, initialize the arrays to hold the character widths
textures = new uint[128];
charWidths = new int[128];
//Create and initilize a freetype font library
Library library = new Library();
//The object in which Freetype holds information on a given
//font is called a "face".
Face face;
//This is where we load in the font information from the file.
//Of all the places where the code might die, this is the most likely,
//as FT_New_Face will die if the font file does not exist or is somehow broken.
face = new Face(library, font);
// set the character size
face.SetCharSize((int)height, (int)height, 96, 96);
//Here we ask opengl to allocate resources for
//all the textures and displays lists which we
//are about to create.
list_base = glView.glGenLists(128);
glView.glGenTextures(128, textures);
//This is where we actually create each of the fonts display lists.
// loop for every character (we want to use) in the font
for (uint i = 0; i < 128; i++)
{
if (charEnabled[i])
{
charWidths[i] = make_dlist(face, i, list_base, textures);
}
}
//We don't need the face information now that the display
//lists have been created, so we free the assosiated resources.
face.Dispose();
//Ditto for the library.
library.Dispose();
// set font as initialized
initialized = true;
}