On 11 August 2010 06:35, Robert Bragg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Chris Debenham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have been hitting a problem where when displaying a cluttertext
>> 'some' of the characters do not display. (screenshot attached showing
>> the problem)
>> There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the behaviour - and it only
>> occurs for some people.  I haven't found anything in common between
>> failing systems (ie: distro/libclutter version/graphics drivers)
>> If it makes any difference the text being displayed is actually a
>> cluttergroup containing 5 black cluttertexts that create an
>> outline/shadow and then a white cluttertext over the top of it all.
>> When the problem occurs the same letter often disappears in all these
>> independent texts (but not always)
>
> It implies to me that something has gone wrong with the glyph cache.
> Internally we maintain a texture with pre-rendered glyphs which we
> texture from when drawing your text. Certainly if you see the same
> letter disappearing that would imply that glyph has been cleared in
> the cache but for some reason Cogl doesn't know about it.

That sounds about right

>
> Have you tried with Clutter master? Failing that it would be
> interesting if you are able to test the 'wip/pango-share-atlas' branch
> on clutter-project.org. We are hoping to merge this soon and it
> changes how we manage the glyph cache to share the code we use for
> texture atlasing.

The hardest bit is that I am not seeing the issue myself (I did once -
but it went away a day or so later and I have no idea what changed :-)

>
> In general it sounds a bit too random to give much more insight, its
> quite possible its a driver bug. If you are running with mesa perhaps
> you can try running with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 in your environment
> and see if it fixes the issue.

Thanks - I'll ask the users who are hitting this issue to try that

>
> kind regards,
> - Robert
>
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