How to do OpenGL live text-rendering for a GUI?

Question

I\'m implementing a GUI built on top of OpenGL. I came to the problem that each GUI will have -- text rendering. I know of several methods of rendering text in OpenGL, howev

Answer 1

freetype-gl

https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl is a library that integrates freetype and OpenGL.

imagine console

See console: https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl/blob/a4cfb9abac19a0ab62b625a9b6f856e032fe3732/demos/console.c

How to get it to run on Ubuntu 15.10: https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl/issues/82#issuecomment-216025527

More details at: How to draw text using only OpenGL methods?

Urho3D ConsoleInput.cpp

https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D/blob/6b63f20065558cff1842bc8e1e3c6ee11f4bf577/Source/Samples/26_ConsoleInput/ConsoleInput.cpp