On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 08:33:08AM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > Olivier, there is some unfinished work in Flocale.* and Fft.*. > > Specifically, I added a new member to the FlocaleFont structure: > > min_char_offset. This should be the x offset at which characters > > are printed for vertical titles. I didn't know how to calculate > > that for Xft (I don't have any documentation). Can you please > > take a look at that? I've marked all unfinished places with > > "FIXME". Also, Fft.c calls a function XftTextExtentsUtf8 and > > a similar version of XDrawString. My system doesn't have these > > and configure does not detect that situation. In other words: I > > can't compile the code. I've ifdef'ed them out for now. > > > > Furthermore, I restructured and reformatted Flocal.* and Fft.*. > > I hope you're not angry with me about that. It was in the best > > interest of future development. All the FOOBAR_CODE() macros are > > gone now and all code is compiled even when the libraries are not > > present (I provided dummy interfaces if something is missing). > > This way the compiler always checks the syntax of the code even if > > the optimizer does not generate any code because of the > > if-conditions like > > > > if (FlocaleMultibyteSupport) > > ... > > > > with FlocaleMultibyteSupport #defined to 0 or 1. > > > > Also, I vaguely remember some discussion about a library that > > prints strings vertically. This is needed to get left/right > > titles working correctly. I'm not sure how to handle this with > > the flood of XDrawString variants we now have. > > > > Unfortunately, I've no time just now to complete the code and > to answer your questions in the good way. I will work on this > on monday and tuesday. The library which rotate font is still > on my machine but it is just for FontStruct. I can try to > implement vertical font rendering but I may need some times > (as one week if I do not fall on particular difficulty).
The matter isn't pressing. THere are two possible ways for vertical titles: - Print them horizontally in a pixmap, rotate the pixmap by 90 degress and copy it into the title. Works without any libraries and is easy to do. - Print one letter atop each other. Either use a library or do-it-yourself. If I'd know how how to find out the length of a single character in bytes it could be done easily without a library. BTW, I'm not convinced titles with one letter atop the other look better than rotated titles. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
