Re: Unit selection input

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:

> > If you feel like code, you shall be more than welcome to pick up the
> > FreeType code, it's all in CVS.  I've gotten stuck in the rendering
> part
> > and do other stuff right now.
>
> I have messed around with the freetype code before- its big and has
> alot of subtle parts- but what I was thinking is that you may not need,
> and will probably be better avoiding the integration of freetype.
> If you render your fonts directly, then you have to have direct access
> to the .ttf's, which is not ideal.

Well, my thought is that it's a lot better than what we have now (fixed set
of fonts, not even always available), and it's possible with current
libraries.  I got the font loading code working to the point where I can
figure out the size of strings (without ugly hacks, AFAIR), but got stuck
on dealing with bitmaps in rendering.

> Once the render interface settles, dia could do all the fancy font
> rendering with rotation/scaling/offsetting directly with the xserver
> or through the GDI, and avoid the mess that open office and abiword
> got into (wrt fonts)

Yeah, once that settles.  Unfortunately, we don't know when that is.

-Lars

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