Hi Alan
Glad to be of some help.
Really that empty string in family name especially when the matchof name is
not an exact match could have strange results and could vary from system to
system.
In order for me to use qt drivers, as all my applications are qt based, I
still need different things as I want to be able to call any of the qt
drivers from within a qt appication. For now if I redefine two functions to
doing nothing in my main.ccp file before int main(int argc, char *argv[])
bool initQtApp( bool isGUI )
{
}
void closeQtApp()
{
}
It seems to work but i still need to check if there is not leak memory with
this approach.
In the future probably it would be nice if the drivers automatically could
work from within a qt application.
cheers,
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 1:41 AM Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2018-12-16 10:13-0000 António Rodrigues Tomé wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> > I found no evidence of fontconfig not being working properly in my
> system.
> > so I've made a small test instead of setting font family to null string
> > I've set it to a bogus name.
> > f.setFamily( "BOUGUSTRASHFAMILY" ); // no family name, forcing Qt to find
> > an appropriate font by itself
> > and in x01c example as there are four plots i edited the source to add
> > the plfont(1); before plot 1, plfont(2); before plot 2,
> > plfont(3); before plot 3, plfont(4); before plot 4, I also get erase
> the
> > esc text sequence that put title always in Roman.
> > The results are what one would expected.
>
> Hi António:
>
> I agree, that one-line change seems to have solved all qt device
> driver issues on your platform. So I tried the equivalent here, and
> it solves some less obvious Qt issues here for examples 23 and 24 that
> have been around for quite a while. So congratulations on finding a
> solution to a PLplot qt device driver bug that has apparently been around
> since the
> very first development of that device!
>
> I commited a small variation (I added commentary and I replaced your
> bogus family name because it was [barely] conceivable a valid font
> might adopt that family name) of your fix as of
> plplot-5.14.0-8-gdb9d90d0b. So please test that commit (by using git
> checkout plplot-5.14.0-8-gdb9d90d0b before building PLplot from the
> git version) to make sure it answers all your qt device needs (other
> than character size).
>
> @Everybody:
>
> This fix is pretty crucial for our qt device driver because it appears
> to fix all long-standing font problems (including character alignment
> for António) for that device driver. Therefore, I intend to release 5.14.1
> with this fix and any other critical fixes that show up in the next few
> weeks.
>
> More about the git process I should use to create a bug-fix release
> (such as the proposed 5.14.1) in my next post.
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
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> and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
> __________________________
>
> Linux-powered Science
> __________________________
>
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António Rodrigues Tomé
Universidade da Beira Interior
Instituto D. Luís (lab associado)
email address:
art...@gmail.com
art...@ubi.pt
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5681-2013
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