On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 16:16 +0200, Oscar Lazzarino wrote: > OK, let's try lowering the bar ;-) > > Would it be possible to use cogl_pango outside of the clutter_text > actor (i.e. in a custom actor)?
yes. > The cogl_pango functions are treated as private functions and not > documented, as far as I can see, and the "simple" approach the fact that are undocumented has nothing to do with whether they are private or not. :-) private functions in clutter or cogl are prefixed by an underscore. > CoglColor *lWhite = cogl_color_new(); > cogl_color_set_from_4f(lWhite, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0); don't allocate a new CoglColor - use it on the stack: CoglColor white; cogl_color_set_from_4f (&white, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0); > cogl_set_source_color(lWhite); > > PangoContext *lPangoCtx = pango_context_new(); use: layout = clutter_actor_create_pango_layout (actor, "some text"); instead of creating the layout and context yourself. > pango_font_description_set_family(lPangoFontDescr, "Sans"); > pango_font_description_set_size(lPangoFontDescr, 10 * PANGO_SCALE); > pango_layout_set_font_description(lPangoLayout, lPangoFontDescr); > cogl_pango_render_layout(lPangoLayout, mWidth/2, mHeight/2, lWhite, 0); > this should work. > shows me the ellipse, but not the text. > > I get the message > > (testCOGL:13610): CoglPango-CRITICAL **: > cogl_pango_get_renderer_from_context: assertion > `COGL_PANGO_IS_FONT_MAP (font_map)' failed > > Any hints? yes: you should not use generic PangoCairo context and layouts, and use the ones that Clutter creates for you. :-) ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, Open Source Software Engineer Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe send a mail to clutter+unsubscr...@o-hand.com
