OpenGL not drawing my textured sprite - c++

Question

I'm using shaders and modern OpenGL. I tried glGetError() checks but no error is returned, I also tried debugging with apitrace, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not even sure if the problem is initialization or drawing code.
Sprite init:
void Sprite::init(float _x, float _y, float _width, float _height, const char* texture_path) {
x = _x;
y = _y;
width = _width;
height = _height;
texture.init(texture_path);
glGenBuffers(1, &vbo);
glGenBuffers(1, &ebo);
// This array will hold our vertex data
// We need 4 vertices, and each vertex has 2 floats for X and Y
Vertex vertexData[4];
// Top right
vertexData[0].set_position(x + width, y + height);
vertexData[0].set_uv(1.0f, 1.0f);
// Bottom right
vertexData[1].set_position(x + width, y);
vertexData[1].set_uv(1.0f, 0.0f);
// Bottom left
vertexData[2].set_position(x, y);
vertexData[2].set_uv(0.0f, 0.0f);
// Top left
vertexData[3].set_position(x, y + height);
vertexData[3].set_uv(0.0f, 1.0f);
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
vertexData[i].set_color(255, 255, 255, 255);
}
GLuint indices[] = { // Note that we start from 0!
0, 1, 3, // First Triangle
1, 2, 3 // Second Triangle
};
// Bind the vertex buffer object (active buffer)
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo);
// Upload the buffer data to GPU
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(vertexData), vertexData, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ebo);
glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(indices), indices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
// Unbind the buffer
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
}
Sprite draw:
void Sprite::draw() {
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture.id);
// Bind the buffer object
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ebo);
// Tell OpenGL that we want to use the first attribute array
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(2);
// This is the position attribute pointer
glVertexAttribPointer(0, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), (void*)offsetof(Vertex, position));
// This is the color attribute pointer
glVertexAttribPointer(1, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, GL_TRUE, sizeof(Vertex), (void*)offsetof(Vertex, color));
// This is the UV attribute pointer
glVertexAttribPointer(2, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), (void*)offsetof(Vertex, uv));
// Draw the 4 vertices to the screen
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 6, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, 0);
// Disable the vertex attrib array
glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);
glDisableVertexAttribArray(1);
glDisableVertexAttribArray(2);
// Unbind the VBO and EBO
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
}
Rendering code:
Sprite sprite;
sprite.init(0, 0, 500, 500, "assets/textures/awesomeface.png");
glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// Enable shader
shader_program.enable();
sprite.draw();
// Disable shader
shader_program.disable();
// Swap buffers
window.swap_window();

Answer 1

You need to call glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); to enable use of textures. It would also be preferable to disable it as soon as you are done using that utility, simply by putting glDisable(GL_TEXTURE2D); as soon as you have finished drawing, or whenever you are done working with textures. Hope this helps! I had this problem as well, and it took me a good 3 days of staring at a blinking cursor to figure out.