Re: [platform-swt-dev] Changes to GTK Font

[Boris_Shingarov@xxxxxxx]

Stick with GdkFonts... hmm.  Maybe I missed some really important stuff, but I can't find a way to implement our API on top of the GdkFont API...  like listing the fonts by certain criteria, or getting the name - in the 1.2 codebase, I use private fields to get to these... and even make X calls (to get the lists).

Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/13/2002 04:51 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Boris_Shingarov@xxxxxxx writes:
> 
> I reverted the stream to GdkFonts because it is currently not working, and 
> other people were getting confused.
> I definitely DO want your help with the Pango fonts and related GC issues.
> 

I think you might consider sticking to GdkFont for now - we need to
add a Pango function to go from characters to glyphs without going
through pango_shape(). See the thread about 2.x plans on
gtk-devel-list.

The work that pango_shape() does is important - otherwise you can't
handle some languages - but handling those languages probably requires
pervasive changes that you don't want to deal with right now.

Havoc
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