Hi,
the font API has changed in DirectFB this weekend. What used to be
surface->DrawString (surface, text, x, y, flags);
has become
surface->DrawString (surface, text, bytes, x, y, flags);
and
font->GetStringWidth (font, text, &width);
became
font->GetStringWidth (font, text, bytes, &width);
The integer variable "bytes" allows to specify the number of bytes to use
from the character array "text". Both functions allow to specify -1 and
interpret it as "use the complete NULL-terminated string". The advantage
of this approach is that you can draw parts of string or non-NULL-terminated
strings without the need to copy the string.
Accompagning this change support for UTF-8-encoded strings was added.
This means that, assuming you use a font that has the appropriate glyphs,
DirectFB is able to draw strings in almost all languages. Current DFBPoint
from CVS gives a good example of how to add support for other encoding at
the application level.
Salut, Sven
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