Best way to draw text with OpenGL and Cocoa?

Question

Does anyone know an easy way to draw arbitrary text in a Cocoa NSOpenGLView? I have a couple of constraints.

• The text on screen may change from frame to frame (for example, a framerate display in the corner)
• I would like to be able to select any font installed on the system at any size

Answer 1

Have you taken a look at the Cocoa OpenGL sample code? It includes "a texture class for strings, showing how to use an NSImage to write a string into and then texture from for high quality font rendering."