On 27 Mar 2013, at 20:16, chris wrote: > Ah, I think I understand the difference now, will have a look at the test > tomorrow... > Though at now cannot imagine a use case for knowing the inking area.
Ah, but it turns out that there are quite a lot of uses for knowing the "inked" area of a typographical element. Not so much for rendering strings of text though; in that case fl_measure if usually the right thing. But if you are rendering "text" for other purposes, it is often beneficial to know what the actual extents are, since they are usually smaller, some times much smaller, than the sizes reported by fl_measure. Even using fonts "decoratively", it is useful to know the extents... For my own part, for example, I often use fl_text_extents to measure glyphs from musical fonts, to ensure that they are positioned on the staff accurately, and suitably sized. The values returned by fl_measure are pretty well useless for this purpose. So, maybe not all that everyday a use case for most folks, I guess, but a real one nonetheless! Cheers, -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
