Re: pango font problem under windows

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:57:22PM +0000, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> 1) Firstly, Pango on Windows looks for the pango.aliases and
> pango.modules files based on the location of the Pango DLL. If the
> pango DLL is <foo>\bin\libpango-1.0-0.dll or <foo>\libpango-1.0-0.dll,
> the pango.aliases and pango.modules files should be in
> <foo>\etc\pango. (I.e. if the folder the DLL is in is named "bin", the
> "etc" folder should be a sibling to it, otherwise the "etc" folder
> should be a subfolder of it.)
 I could find libpango-1.0.0.dll in two places, I think it's because
later I installed the runtime environment as well, to check if it's
solve my problem - it's not.
1) system32\libpango-1.0-0.dll and
system32\etc\pango\pango.[aliases|modules] exists.
2) PF\CF\GTK\2.0\lib\libpango-1.0-0.dll
PF\CF\GTK\2.0\etc\pango\pango.[aliases|modules] exists.

> So, if the "dropline" GTK installer puts the Pango DLLs in the
> system32 folder, Pango should indeed be looking for its etc folder as
> system32\etc\pango, and I don't know why it doesn't find it.
 Neither do I, but system32\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc is the correct rc file for
GTK. If I change the font there and trying to start my application, then
I get a font problem regarding to that. So it may be an other problem,
as now I get that "Times New Roman 10" could not be loaded in the first
place. Dunno why, from OOo 1.1.0 I can use it. :-( Can it be because the
additional metric (ie "Times New Roman 10" instead of "Times New
Roman")?

> 2) Actually, it is possible to override the above way to locate the
> Pango top folder by using the Registry key. Does the dropline
> installer add a HKCU\Software\pango 1.2.5\InstallationDirectory or
> HKLM\Software\pango 1.2.5\InstallationDirectory string value to the
> Registry?
 No, only GTK's location is set HLM\Software\GTK+ Development
Environment\2.0\Path. It shows the correct location. Also, it's only
Pango 1.2.0, don't know if it's matter.

> 3) But, an important point is that an installer definitely should
> *not* put anything in the system32 folder. Installing 3rd-party stuff
> into the Windows system(32) folders is a big no-no.
 I agree.

> As you can guess from above, you probably should ask more information
> from the people behind the dropline GTK installers...
 Thanks already! Just posted a note on their forums.

Cheers,
GCS