Qt success!

Finished my mp_edit program.  Halariously, the final problem was rendering text.  I was using the Qt renderText method in the QGLWidget object.  I noticed that my text was just not working, but then, it sort of worked when I only specified an x and y coordinate and no z coordinate.  Which -- made some tiny amount of sense, maybe, if I had the clipping planes wrong or something like that.

But no -- read the following description:

void QGLWidget::renderText ( int x, int y, const QString & str, const QFont & font = QFont(), int listBase = 2000 )
Renders the string str into the GL context of this widget.
x and y are specified in window coordinates, with the origin in the upper left-hand corner of the window. If font is not specified, the currently set application font will be used to render the string. To change the color of the rendered text you can use the glColor() call (or the qglColor() convenience function), just before the renderText() call.

void QGLWidget::renderText ( double x, double y, double z, const QString & str, const QFont & font = QFont(), int listBase = 2000 )
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
x, y and z are specified in scene or object coordinates relative to the currently set projection and model matrices. This can be useful if you want to annotate models with text labels and have the labels move with the model as it is rotated etc.
Note that this function only works properly if GL_DEPTH_TEST is enabled, and you have a properly initialized depth buffer.

OK, now, silly my, I read that the second function was an overloaded version of the first one, and thought that they did sort of the same thing -- but note that they really don't at all.  The first one takes two integer arguments, and works in screen space, and the second one takes three floating point arguments, and works in 3d space, and requires that the GL_DEPTH_TEST flag to be enabled.  They're two methods that share a name, but they are so wildly different in usage that, to my C-influenced mind, should be different commands.  I am certain that this is standard C-double-cross idiom, but it's going to take me a while to get used to it.

OK, the window resizing doesn't work yet, but everything else is fine.

I resurrected my old gdiff program for my new Mac -- I'm sure there's something better out there but I couldn't find it quickly.  It was nice to see that it compiled and ran almost immediately -- it was the first OpenGL program I wrote not on an SGI back probably 8 or 9 years ago.  If you want a copy of it, drop me a line to thadbeier@gmail.com