Re: New GTK+ anti-aliasing patch posted

[Michael L Torrie <torriem cs byu edu>]

I hate to bother everyone further on this, but I still seem to have some
setting not right.  According to xdpyinfo, I have the RENDER extension
(I'm not running the accelerated nvidia drivers on this machine either).
I know Xft works because KDE can do anti-aliasing of the fonts, but it
won't do alpha-blending on the icons.

Is the RENDER extension what I'm looking for (Xrender)?  I have Xftconfig
set up to read all my type1 and truetype fonts.

Michael


On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> Hi -
>
> After a short night of coding, I've posted an update to my patch
> against GTK+ 1.2.8 that lets it use the Xft library in XFree86 4.0.2
> to render anti-aliased text:
>
>   http://www.speakeasy.org/~bos
>
> Changes since the last update (which was in late January):
>
> - Fixed some problems with gdk_text_extents
>
> - Added runtime check for the RENDER extension
>
> - Some bug fixes
>
> Note: my patch is not the same as Jacob Berkman's independently
> developed patch that does much the same thing.  I have cribbed an
> obviously more-correct snippet from his patch, though :-)
>
> To do:
>
> - Split out dependencies on libXft.so into a separate shared object,
>   so that libgdk.so will run on platforms that don't have Xft yet
>
> - Fix weird bug that causes certain widgets to take up far too much
>   horizontal space (several times the width of the screen)
>
> Once the last two points above are covered, this patch should enable
> many programs that are (this is a bit complex)
>
> * linked against GTK+ 1.2
>
> * to run unmodified (i.e. without need for relinking) on machines that
>   either do or don't have the Xft library present
>
> * and to render using anti-aliased fonts on servers that support the
>   RENDER extension
>
> * and to fall back to normal rendering on servers that do *not* have
>   the RENDER extension.
>
> My goal is to make this set of modifications packageable so that the
> binaries will run happily in all circumstances, and anti-alias text
> whenever they can.
>
> 	<b
>
> _______________________________________________
> gtk-devel-list mailing list
> gtk-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
>