Re: Font size and screen resolution



On 30 Jan 2002, Lars Clausen wrote, quoting himself:

On 30 Jan 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:
[...snip...]
Out of curiousity, could you go into a little detail about the
difficulty you are having with freetype.

Absolutely!  Any help is welcome:)

All the fun is in lib/font.c, inside #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE.  In
freetype_load_string(), I manage to find the size of the string, and that
[...snip..]

This has now been fixed, it was some pointer error that I'd missed
(freetype does a great job of totally confusing the user about what is a
pointer and what is not:).  I can now render the text, except it's
inverted
and longer than it should be:)

I this a good example of solving one's problem while trying to explain it to
others? I don't know how many times I have discovered my own [coding]
mistakes just as I was trying to explain to a colleague what I couldn't get
working...

:-)

-+-Ben-+-





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