Using glTranslate and glRotate to move and rotate?

Question

I am learning openGL and I am writing an application that draws a 2D triangle and rotates it around its z-axis depending on its position. Its middle (t1.tx, t1.ty) is constantly being changed when the triangle is dragged with the mouse. The problem is that when I drag the triangle to another location, instead of staying where its at and rotating, it rotates in a circle path around its center point. Can someone look over this code and see what I am doing wrong.. I want it to rotate in its position.

void drawTriangle() {
    glBegin(GL_POLYGON);

    glColor3f((float)200/255, (float)200/255, (float)200/255);
    glVertex2f(t1.tx, t1.ty + .2); // top point of triangle
    glVertex2f(t1.tx - .2, t1.ty - .2); // left point
    glVertex2f(t1.tx + .2, t1.ty - .2); // right point

    glEnd();
}

void display() {
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
    glLoadIdentity();

    glPushMatrix();
        glTranslatef(t1.tx, t1.ty, 0); // move matrix to triangle's current center point
        glRotatef(theta, 0, 0, 1.0); // rotate on z-axis
        drawTriangle();
    glPopMatrix();

    glutPostRedisplay();
    glutSwapBuffers();
}

Answer 1

It has been a WHILE since I did this stuff, but based on what you are saying, my first guess would be to swap the order of the glTranslatef and glRotatef. You want to rotate in model space then transform to world space.

Answer 2

I fixed it. The problem was that I was translating the matrix, and then drawing onto that matrix that was translated. What I did was draw my triangle at the center of the matrix, so it still moves and rotates at its current position as the matrix is translated. Thank you for the help.