On 2015-03-23 17:56- Phil Rosenberg wrote:
> i) Fontconfig is nearly impossible to build on native Windows. We have
> had these discussions before. GIMP does appear to use it, but they
> have no doubt had considerably more development person-hours than us
> to work out how on earth to get it t
I am slightly late to the show here, but I have fought with all three
text implimentations for the different wxWidgets backends and have
some thoughts.
i) Fontconfig is nearly impossible to build on native Windows. We have
had these discussions before. GIMP does appear to use it, but they
have no
On 03/21/2015 05:51 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote:
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>> On Mar 21, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote:
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>> On 03/20/2015 05:35 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote:
In sum, the technical choice is between the alt approach which
requires already implemented code in the core with simpler code in the
> On Mar 21, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
> On 03/20/2015 05:35 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote:
>>>
>>> In sum, the technical choice is between the alt approach which
>>> requires already implemented code in the core with simpler code in the
>>> unicode-aware drivers and the original approach
On 03/20/2015 05:35 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote:
>>
>> In sum, the technical choice is between the alt approach which
>> requires already implemented code in the core with simpler code in the
>> unicode-aware drivers and the original approach which allows us to
>> drop core code at the expense of more dup
On 2015-03-20 16:38-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
> Personally I don't like either unicode pathway as they both lead to heavy
> code duplication in the drivers, fiddly driver specific text rendering issues
> that are not always that easy to sort out and the sprawl of text rendering
> across multipl
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
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>> On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin"
>>> wrote:
>>>
On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of
On 03/20/2015 03:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>>>
5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating
this to
On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin"
> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>>
>>> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating
>>> this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for
On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
>> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating
>> this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for the
>> display of the resulting bitmaps. This would f
On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating
> this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for the
> display of the resulting bitmaps. This would finally solve the problem
> of the text looking slightly differ
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