3D font in OpenGL

Here is a small example:

class C3DFontView : public CView
{
  ...
  CGLFont  m_FontX; // Declare a font object in your view class
  ...
};

int CMy3DFontView::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) // Create view
{
  if (CView::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
    return -1;
/*
** Setup font attributes
*/
  m_FontX.SetXOffset(-0.4f);
  m_FontX.SetYOffset(-0.4f);
  m_FontX.SetXScale(1.4f);
  m_FontX.SetYScale(1.3f);
  m_FontX.SetZScale(0.8f);
  m_FontX.SetXRotate(-20.0f);
  m_FontX.SetYRotate(-6.0f);
  m_FontX.SetZRotate(90.0f);

  wglMakeCurrent(m_pDC->m_hDC,m_hRC);
  m_FontX.SetFontType(GL_FONT_SOLID); // Select font type
  m_FontX.CreateFont(m_pDC, "Arial Black"); // Create the font
  m_FontX.SetText("Xing"); // Select text to render

  wglMakeCurrent(NULL,NULL);

}

void CMy3DFontView::OnDraw(CDC* pDC) // Draw method
{
  CMy3DFontDoc* pDoc = GetDocument();
  ASSERT_VALID(pDoc);

  ...
	
  wglMakeCurrent(m_pDC->GetSafeHdc(), m_hRC);
  DrawGLFont(); // Render the text
  SwapBuffers(m_pDC->GetSafeHdc());
  wglMakeCurrent(m_pDC->GetSafeHdc(), NULL);

}


void CMy3DFontView::DrawGLFont(void) // The render method
{
  glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);
  glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
	
  //clear color buffer
  glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
  glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

  //set light model
  glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_AMBIENT, m_Lightambient); //set light ambient
  glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, m_Lightdiffuse); //set light specular
  glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, m_Lightspecular); //set light specular
  glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, m_Lightposition); //set light position

  glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
  glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);

  glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
  glLoadIdentity();

  glTranslatef(-0.5f, 0.0f, -5.0f);
	
  m_FontX.GLDrawText(); // Render the text

  glFlush();

}

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