[Freetype] weird glyph width/heights

[HaB JacKaL]

Hi all.

I am a total newb to FT, so please bear with me.  I am attempting to blit 
glyph bitmaps to an OpenGL rendering context, using FT as the means by which 
to generate the bitmap.  I am getting some really strange values for the 
height/width of the glyph, whih I need to pass to the blitting function.  I 
keep getting 8 digit values for the height and width, with no decimal point. 
 Obviously a single glyph can't be millions of pixels in size...is this 
measurement not supplied in pixels?

As an aside...I keep seeing references in the API docs and tutorials to 
"26.6 format pixels".  Uhh...whazzat?  Can they be converted to screen 
pixels?  I have tried using bitmap_left and _top, as well as metrics->height 
and width, but I seem to get the same odd values.  Can anyone enlighten me?

TIA...

-HaB



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