I was on a Windows 8.1 machine. I literally just grabbed all the packages from gnustep.org and installed them. I attempted to make changes in SystemPreferences.app to fix the issue, but rendering issues made it so I couldn't complete the changes.
On 11 February 2016 at 03:43, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > When was the Windows installer that was used created? Are we sure this is > not a bug that has already been resolved in development? > > > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If someone wants to continue looking into fixing this, I've spent a few >> minutes trying to track this down completely blindly (i.e. I didn't >> actually run any code). >> >> The number 16 in '16 characters until whitespace appears' _seems_ to come >> from: >> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSLayoutManager.m >> method -drawGlyphsForGlyphRange:atPoint: line "#define GBUF_SIZE 16 /* >> TODO: tweak */". >> >> Combined with Riccardo's mention that this may be related to DPI, and >> following the call to C function GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances() from >> >> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSGraphicsContext.m >> I'd say the fixer will want to look at >> >> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoGState.m >> method -GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances:::, and >> >> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoFontInfo.m >> method -drawGlyphs:length:on:. >> >> (I'll post this in the bug as well.) >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Odd whitespace in the middle of a word is also a bug. It seems to happen >>> after exactly 16 glyphs. >>> >>> I filed Savannah bug 47109 <http:///>. >>> >>> James, additional repro steps would be appreciated. Can you confirm the >>> issue goes away if you follow Riccardo's advice? >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am pretty sure you have a resolution problem, I have seen this >>>> several times on windows (and also on X11 on one FreeBSD workstation). >>>> >>>> Please set your Windows to "100%" and do not enlarge text and icons. >>>> >>>> For some reason, we enlarge the controls, but then use a small font to >>>> draw the text. It would be best of course to "scale" up also the the font, >>>> or, at least to ignore the resize and keep everything pixels-sized to >>>> GNUstep, but currently it is hybrid. >>>> >>>> >>>> Riccardo >>>> >>>> On 02/10/16 03:35, James Carthew wrote: >>>> >>>> Attached is a picture showing the rendering error. This was generated >>>> using the pre-built windows files from the GNUstep website. >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Inline images 1] >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing >>>> [email protected]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>> >>>> >>> > > -- > Gregory Casamento > GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > http://ind.ie/phoenix/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > >
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