Demonstration of missing characters on end of string

2003-07-08 Thread Pete French
Going bck to the converastions of a week or so ago - I have just noticed something which reliably reproduces the "missing characters on the end of a string" effect. Just take a look at the enclosed gsmarkup file in GSMarkupBrowser - the 'p' is missing off the end of 'Backend group' in the form. Th

Re: Demonstration of missing characters on end of string

2003-07-10 Thread Alexander Malmberg
Pete French wrote: > Going bck to the converastions of a week or so ago - I have just noticed > something which reliably reproduces the "missing characters on the end of a > string" effect. [snip] Thanks! I was able to reproduce this, but only with some fonts. Turned out to be a problem with finit

Re: Demonstration of missing characters on end of string

2003-07-11 Thread Pete French
> Thanks! I was able to reproduce this, but only with some fonts. Turned > out to be a problem with finite precision arithmetic. NSStringDrawing > will use a really large text container to size text, and since the > string was right aligned, the extents were 1e8-~80 to 1e8. Subtracting Ahhh... tha