Robert Roessler:

> 3) replacing ALL >1 char width calls with "len * 10" gives a somewhat
> less than perfect display... and NO perceived speedup; so it looks
> like it is the actual rendering and display

   Have you tried turning off buffering and two phase drawing?
SCI_SETBUFFEREDDRAW, SCI_SETTWOPHASEDRAW.

> 4) plugging in the latest [Windows] development builds of GLib and the
> Pango/Cairo packages DOES improve perceived snappiness, BUT not enough
> to "un-peg" the CPU

   Good.

> So, IS the "Pango/GTK on Windows combo doomed"?  Well, there sure are
> a *lot* of software layers BEFORE even getting to Windows... I wonder
> how this looks in a "native" GTK setting?

   GTK+ on X/Linux with currently released Pango, as for example in
Fedora Core 4, is considerably slower than Windows native.

> font.base=font:!Bitstream Vera Sans,size:10
> font.comment=font:!Bitstream Vera Serif,size:10
>
> as my only "base" fonts (with all other fonts derived from these),
> does that make my normal Windows-build SciTE/Scintilla use Pango?

   No. Native Windows versions will not use Pango.

   Neil

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