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+/****************************************************************************
+* MeshLab                                                           o o     *
+* An extendible mesh processor                                    o     o   *
+*                                                                _   O  _   *
+* Copyright(C) 2005, 2009                                          \/)\/    *
+* Visual Computing Lab                                            /\/|      *
+* ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |      *
+*                                                                    \      *
+* All rights reserved.                                                      *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify      *
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by      *
+* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or         *
+* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of            *
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
+* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
+* for more details.                                                         *
+*                                                                           *
+****************************************************************************/
+#ifndef VCG_WRAP_QT_GLLABEL_H
+#define VCG_WRAP_QT_GLLABEL_H
+
+#include <QMessageBox>
+#include <wrap/qt/col_qt_convert.h>
+
+namespace vcg
+{
+
+  class glLabel
+  {
+	public:
+
+
+    static void render(QPainter *painter, const vcg::Point3f &p, const QString &text)
+    {
+      QFont qFont;
+      qFont.setStyleStrategy(QFont::NoAntialias);
+      qFont.setFamily("Helvetica");
+      qFont.setPixelSize(12);
+      vcg::Color4b color(vcg::Color4b::White);
+      render(painter,p,text,qFont,color);
+    }
+
+    static void render(QPainter *painter, const vcg::Point3f &p, const QString &text, QFont qFont, vcg::Color4b color, float angle =0,bool rightAlign=false)
+    {
+      GLdouble model[16];
+      GLdouble proj[16];
+      GLint view[4];
+
+      glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, model);
+      glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, proj);
+      glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, view);
+      GLdouble winx,winy,winz;
+
+      gluProject(p[0],p[1],p[2],model,proj,view,&winx,&winy,&winz);
+
+      glPushAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT);
+      glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
+      glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
+      glPushMatrix();
+      glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
+      glPushMatrix();
+      QFontMetrics qfm(qFont);
+      QRect textBox = qfm.boundingRect(text);
+      painter->endNativePainting();
+      painter->save();
+      painter->setRenderHint(QPainter::TextAntialiasing);
+      painter->setPen(vcg::ColorConverter::ToQColor(color));
+      painter->setFont(qFont);
+      //qDebug("Printing at %f %f (%f %f %f) '%s'",winx,winy,p[0],p[1],p[2],qPrintable(text));
+      painter->translate(QPointF(winx,view[3]-winy));
+      painter->rotate(angle);
+      //painter->drawText(QPointF(0,0),text);
+      //painter->drawText(QRect(),Qt::AlignLeft+Qt::AlignVCenter,text);
+      //painter->drawText(QRect(view[0],view[1],view[2],view[3]),Qt::AlignLeft+Qt::AlignVCenter,text);
+      //QPoint base(0,textBox.height()/2);
+      QPoint base(0,qfm.ascent()/2);
+      if(rightAlign)
+        base.setX(-textBox.width() -qfm.maxWidth());
+      painter->drawText(base,text);
+      //painter->drawText(QPointF(winx,view[3]-winy),text);
+      painter->restore();
+      painter->beginNativePainting();
+      glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
+      glPopMatrix();
+      glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
+      glPopMatrix();
+      glPopAttrib();
+      checkGLError::qDebug("myRenderText");
+    }
+
+
+
+    static void render(QPainter *painter, const vcg::Point3d &p, const QString &text)
+    { render(painter,Point3f::Construct(p),text); }
+    static void render(QPainter *painter, const vcg::Point3d &p, const QString &text, QFont qFont, vcg::Color4b color)
+    { render(painter,Point3f::Construct(p),text,qFont,color); }
+
+  };
+} // end namespace
+
+#endif