CVS willing (I have my doubts), Cells and Cello have now been updated with changes to resolve some deadly problems with FTGL when combined with display lists.

The Cells change had to do with enhancing the "lazy" option to be more of a code than a flag: one now has options :once-asked, :until-asked, and :always (alias t). Aside: I was surprised to see I had done this originally as an option on a formula for a slot. Seems to me it should be a slot option. ie, that when one needs lazy it will because the slot itself needs that behavior, no matter what the formula. So we'll put a "watch" on this design decision,which I left as is for now.

making display list calculation lazy (until asked) solved the problem with extruded fonts. Texture fonts were fixed by hacking FTGL in ways which turned out to be in testing already for FTGL v2.1 -- ie, I ran into this at the same time as others and happened to come up with the same fix. The problem was pretty subtle, so I will spare you all unless someone asks for the deets. Pretty much just a deep issue with display list generation.

Anyway, it now seems as if FTGL is back under control. Note that all this started when I went for the big performance enhancement of using nested display lists for all imaging. That interacted badly with some FTGL design decisions which have now been fixed or worked around.

kenny