Re: gdtk_draw_text deprecated , what use instead of it ?

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:

> iain wrote:
>  
>
> > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:31 +0000, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > while
> > > gives absolutely no advantages over gdk_draw_text() (because labels are
> > > guaranteed to be in ascii and short).
> > >      
> > Apart from being antialiased and use decent fonts you mean.
> >
> > Not speaking as a GTK developer I don't think the gdk_draw_text stuff is
> > coming back.
> >    
>
> gdk_draw_text() is not antialiased?  I'm taking my comment back.
>
> But seriously, don't you think layouts are too complicated and overkill
> for some problems to make them mandatory?  Maybe there should be a
> light-weight gdk_draw_<something-else>() which would be antialiased
> and use Pango fonts, but more like gdk_draw_text() in respect of
> position parameters?
>  
Looks like you dont know about gdk_draw_layout() function:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Drawing-Primitives.html#gdk-draw-layout
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Drawing-Primitives.html#gdk-draw-layout-with-colors

Layouts usage in G?K (in the way of just displaying some text with 
selected font) is as easy as old scheme. If you dont need extra 
functionality that layouts give - dont use it, if you want use it but 
dont want to learn some docs and code - use Pango Markup:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/PangoMarkupFormat.html

When performance issues becomes a problem for the specific application 
you should consider to use platform-depended low-level text drawing 
functions because they're fastest and you have a full control on what is 
going on. If you want to have portable and fine-looking application - 
you forced to use pango stuff. How, for example, you'll explain the 
windows-user what XLFD is (you have to use XLFD for font-handling for 
gdk_draw_text) ?

   Olexiy