[fltk.development] Fltk-1.3 text extents patch

2008-11-18 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
All, How do people feel about my fl_text_extents patch (STR #2076)? I don't know how to get something new like that added to the API. This change is very useful, to me, so I'd very much like to push it into the source, but how do I get agreement for that? Is the proposed API acceptable? Does it

Re: [fltk.development] Fltk-1.3 text extents patch

2008-11-18 Thread Greg Ercolano
MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: How do people feel about my fl_text_extents patch (STR #2076)? Offhand I'm not familiar with the difference between a typographical bounding box and a minimal bounding box. It's probably obvious, and I haven't had my coffee yet.

Re: [fltk.development] Fltk-1.3 text extents patch

2008-11-18 Thread imacarthur
On 18 Nov 2008, at 19:00, Torsten Giebl wrote: I would like to have something like this but one that accepts a String and gives back the minimum width and - height. Torsten, can you expand on this? I am not sure I understand what you are asking - is this not what my fl_text_extents

Re: [fltk.development] Fltk-1.3 text extents patch

2008-11-18 Thread Greg Ercolano
imacarthur wrote: On 18 Nov 2008, at 19:00, Torsten Giebl wrote: I would like to have something like this but one that accepts a String and gives back the minimum width and - height. Torsten, can you expand on this? I am not sure I understand what you are asking - is this not what my

Re: [fltk.development] Fltk-1.3 text extents patch

2008-11-18 Thread Torsten Giebl
Hello ! Ya, Torsten, I'm thinking Ian's proposed function does exactly what you're asking for. Then i am 100% with you. I remembered an early discussion where someone made a point whether it should take a single character or a string. CU