From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 02:12:57 EDT
about the two functions that lack implementation,
sorry, but I forgot about them. Only Qnx and Unix has
implementation for getCoverage and drawGlyph.
drawGlyph(i, ...) should draw the glyph indexed in the
i position in the table (not to be confused with the
i'th codepoint of UCS4).
I explained getCoverage a bit ago. For a given font,
it should return a vector that gives us information
about the codepoints covered by this font. It should
fill the vector that it receives as argument (after
clearing it) with pairs of:
(base codepoint, length) (base codepoint, length) ...
For instance, if the font only supports the ranges
[a-z][A-Z][0-9], you should put in the vector:
['a', 'z'-'a', 'A', 'Z'-'A', '0', '9'-'0']
AFAIR drawGlyph is not used right now, but my first
implementation of insert symbol used it and even if I
don't use it I though that it was useful enough to not
delete it. We may (should :) need it in the future,
but by now you can just stub it.
getCoverage is more important, if you don't have it
insert symbol will not work right.
BTW, you can leave both functions of
GnomeGraphicsPrint as stubs. It's only need for on
screen graphics (in fact, it should be a GR_Font
method, just as getAscender, etc. but everybody seems
to be using GR_Graphics as GR_Graphics + GR_Font. I
plan to change that in the future)
Cheers,
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Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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