Would it be more useful to use an existing TrueType font renderer such as
FreeType? And with xfree 4.0 including the FreeType libraries(I
think) we could look forward to most users having the library on their
system already.
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Chris Morgan
On Fri, 12 May 2000, michael cardenas wrote:
> MFC is a big issue for any claim that we can compile out of the box.
> Another issue is wrc. In our experiences, WRC was pretty much unusable for
> resources of any size. For the small tools, we used wrc, but we had to use
> msvc++ for our application resource.
>
> I think before we make any move towards 1.0 we should reexamine the stub
> count. There was some dicsussion a few days ago comparing the number of
> stubs to actual implementations. That's important.
>
> Also, we need more font support. Is there any kind of font rasterizer in
> wine? We implemented some code to read font data and curve data out of
> truetype fonts that we're willing to contribute, but since there's no
> rasterizer, it would be mostly useless.
>
> >Jeremy White wrote:
> >>
> >> Given the amount of progress Wine has made over the past year,
> >> it seems (to me anyway) that the time may be appropriate to
> >> try for Wine version 1.0.
> >>
> >> 2. What needs to be done before we can release Wine 1.0?
> >
> >What about support for MFC ? Most applications are MFC based. And g++
> >chokes while compiling MFC.
>
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