Re: long text line artifacts

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I create a text element ('T' button) that is relatively long
> (eg. 30 'a' characters), and then I drag it around the editor
> screen, the edges of the text line leave some garbage artifacts
> on the screen. (Thre screen isn't restored to the white background)
>
> It isnt a big deal, but I wonder if other people are also
> experiencing this?

This is a bounding box problem.  I am aware of it for the FreeType
rendering, but I thought the GDK text renderer was ok.  It can be
problematic if the text is in a box that then is made too small.

-Lars

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