Setting glutBitmapCharacter color?

Just wondering if someone can help me track down my issue with the following code where the text color is not being set correctly (its just rendering whatever color is in the background)

void RenderText(int x, int y, const char *string)
{
int i, len;

glUseProgram(0);

glLoadIdentity();
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -5.0f);
glRasterPos2i(x, y);

glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
for (i = 0, len = strlen(string); i < le开发者_如何学Gon; i++)
{
    glutBitmapCharacter(GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13, (int)string[i]);
}
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}

I've checked all the usual things (I think), disabling texturing, setting color before rasterPos'ing, etc Ive disabled shaders but Im still having issues

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Looks like you've forgotten to glDisable(GL_LIGHTING) before drawing your string.

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No color is stored with any OpenGL bitmap (which is what glutBitmapCharacter created. The bitmap is monochrome and stores only shape.

When the bitmap is drawn (e.g. glBitmap or maybe glDrawLists), the current raster color is used. The raster color is not always the same as the active color, see http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Coloring_a_bitmap.

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Color is usually controlled with the glColor3f function, thus if the text is white and shouldn't be then the following change should help:

glLoadIdentity();
glColor3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);     //<-- this line controls the color (now text is gray)
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -5.0f);
glRasterPos2i(x, y);

Also, calling glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D) and glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D) is unnecessary. Instead you can just call glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,0) to disable textures and then use the same function to set the active texture. Just make sure to call glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D) in your initialization function.