Re: NS2.1 Unicode font library could not be initialized

[David J. Ruck]

Tim Hill wrote:

In article <1247166925.32517.183.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
 wrote:


There are many useful state-change notifications which are only sent to
modules. The font path changing is one of them.



Aside from this, making RUfl (and its clients) able to handle this
information is decidedly non-trivial. Personally, I've better things to
be doing with my time.


Fair enough. As I have said elsewhere, I don't find font scanning too
intrusive personally and frankly though it would perhaps be more complete
to include such functionality there would be little or no benefit in
scanning many fonts used on an ad-hoc basis.


The RUFL scanning process is currently too long to be performed as a 
response to font path change notifications. It would have to be altered 
to perform scanning in the background in order not to lock out the user 
at arbitrary times (i.e. other than wen having started a RUFL using 
application such as NetSurf).


Cheers
---David

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Re: NS2.1 Unicode font library could not be initialized

[Tim Hill]

In article <1247166925.32517.183.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
 wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 19:35 +0100, Tim Hill wrote:
> > In article <1247005795.32517.169.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
> >  wrote:
> > > Not really. There's just no sensible way to determine that the
> > > available fonts have changed.
> > 
> > ? Other apps (e.g. Artworks) seem to notice when changes are made to
> > the available fonts.
> > 
> > > At least, not without yet another support module.
> > 
> > Ah.

> There are many useful state-change notifications which are only sent to
> modules. The font path changing is one of them.

> Aside from this, making RUfl (and its clients) able to handle this
> information is decidedly non-trivial. Personally, I've better things to
> be doing with my time.

Fair enough. As I have said elsewhere, I don't find font scanning too
intrusive personally and frankly though it would perhaps be more complete
to include such functionality there would be little or no benefit in
scanning many fonts used on an ad-hoc basis.

There are even other font issues more pressing than this, never mind the
other more beneficial things you are up to.

-- 
Tim Hill,

www.timil.com