That's even greater news :) Thanks for your effort over TextBox hell. I lately found that libgdiplus on OSX fails to render characters with Japanese default font. I wonder if pango-based implementation may solve the issue (I seem to have filed a bug as #371861).
Atsushi Eno Jonathan Anderson wrote: > > Sebastien Pouliot wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:06 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> There was a discussion today on IRC about Winforms and Pango, and I >>> was wondering if this patch ever got committed, >> No, it's not committed. But like I offered in a later email I don't have >> any issue committing this* (well the most up to date patch) into SVN. > > I'm pretty sure the last patch I posted to the list has my latest > changes to libgdiplus. I can double check that over the weekend. > >>> and in general what was the status of using Pango for GDI+ >> Even with the great work from Jonathan this Pango-enabling does not >> cover all the cases already supported by libgdiplus (unless he has a >> newer patch with additional features). >> >> * As such it's not possible at this stage to switch to a pango backend >> without loosing features that existing applications depends on. Which >> means it will, for the time being, be an option (getting the new >> features) that reduce compatibility. >> >> The "big deal" is that the current work (old mine in SVN and Jonathan >> new patch) use the high-level pango API which is not complete enough for >> some of the options offered by GDI+ (including many supported by >> libgdiplus). This means that the code needs to be re-written in the >> low-level API before being ready for general consumption. >> > > Yes, this is the case. There may be a kind of hybrid high and low level > approach, but in any case, the low-level API will need to be used. I > did some work with it, and it does have some of its own challenges, but > I definitely think it will be possible. > > More recently, I've done a lot of work in the winforms code on the > TextBox (and its cousins). There are several issues with the current > implementation there that prevent nice text editing with non-Roman > languages even with the libgdiplus pango support enabled. I've done my > best to preserve as much of the old architecture as possible, so in my > changes to the TextBox it is possible to easily select the old rendering > code or the new rendering code at run-time or compile time. It needs a > little more cleaning up before I submit a patch here, however. > > I've recently taken a new job, so I won't be able to spend as much time > working on this project as I have before, but I'd definitely like to see > development continue. Some of my former colleagues I think will be > taking on some development in this area as well as it is very important > to the group I was with. > > Jonathan Anderson > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list