Subject: Interfaces [was: On rendering (Re: Pango will be a problem)]
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 17:10:08 CST
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> If enough changes can be made to Pango, it should work fine.
"If", "enough changes", "can" and "it should" displays we shouldn't even
think about this at the moment. It's like saying "If I can change my Impala
enough, it should be able to fly to the moon". I think an Impala won't ever
fly to the moon. :-) (Disclaimer: I don't own an Impala)
>> Rendering text that uses formating is not all
>>straight forward, and certainly it is not possible to simply replace
>>normal text drawing routines with one's that use a rendering
>>engine.
>
>Sure it is - at least if you can pass enough info (or get
>enough info back) from your rendering engine.
I agree, almost. It is mostly straightforward (though by no means simple
:-) ), if your font renderer provides what you need. If not, it's simply
impossible. Perhaps we could help those projects by displaying what
interface(s) are needed to render formatted text?
/Mike - please don't cc
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