Re: Cairo support

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Michael Torrie wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:47 +0400, Andrew E. Makeev wrote:
>  
>
> > yes, 2.8.x
> > well, that's the bad news, because we met 2 problems:
> >
> > 1st - application becomes much slower until we turn off FontConfig/FreeType
> >    
>
> What aspects of your program are slower?  If you run your program on,
> say, Windows XP (instead of server) at 16-bit color depth is the same
> problem manifest?
>
>  
>
> > 2nd - we have application crashed on Win Server 2003 in cairo lib when 
> > rendering animation image. (DLLs were built on XP machine though with MinGW)
> >    
>
> Does the application crash in the same manner when you use the official
> binary dlls as provided by Tor?
>
> Note that as long as you don't need to use any of the new apis
> introduced in 2.8, you can always ship your app with the dlls from 2.6
> where cairo was not yet integrated.
>
> However, a bug report on 2.8 would probably be helpful.  A test case
> illustrating the problems (speed and crashing) would be helpful to the
> developers in tracking down the bug.
>
> Michael
>
>  
We did switch to 2.8 because of TextView anchored widgets redraw fix.

DLLs provided by Tor won't crash. They just don't support all features 
that we need: standard menu localization, like text-entry popup menu 
(problem with gtkimmodules), and dynamic locale switching for gettext 
(not all symbols exported).

Slower... We used gtk-demo to test dlls. So, with freetype enabled, 
application was noticeable slower just at the beginning, but speed 
became normal with time. It is not important now, when we disabled freetype.

The same about crash - we did just run gtk-demo for 16-bit color depth 
with Cairo 1.0.4. (16 bit - maximum for Remote Desktop service)
Now we are using Cairo 1.0.2, and all works like a charm.

Regards,
-andrew