Re: Fast ascii rendering

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>]

Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> Hello,
>     Is there a way to do fast ascii rendering the gdk way, bypassing
> the default internaionlized (slow) way of doing it? In this particular
> app. i dont need internationalization but ascii output on a drawable
> with a very high speed (at least 2000 chars in 1 millisecond).
Under X11 the fastest way is to use X calls (XDrawString, etc) and 
bitmap fonts.
See:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-X-Window-System-Interaction.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-X-Window-System-Interaction.html#GDK-DISPLAY:CAPS
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-X-Window-System-Interaction.html#GDK-GC-XGC:CAPS
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-X-Window-System-Interaction.html#GDK-DRAWABLE-XID:CAPS

XDrawString XLoadFont manual pages and XLFD document will also help.

PS: this is a bad advice if you want to write smth portable and supposed 
to run on different platforms

        Olexiy