MacArthur, Ian (SELEX) (UK) wrote: >>> The other change is to fix the XFT builds so that gl_font() >> can select >>> fonts of different sizes - the default fltk-XFT behaviour >> is to pick a >>> single fixed font for GL use, regardless of what size or >> face you request. >>> With this hack in place, you can now get different sizes - >> the face is >>> still pretty much ignored, however. >>> I might be able to work that, but for now it's just a hackaround... >>> >> Hi Ian - It would be great to merge this fix into the >> mainline FLTK 1.1 >> tree. Debian (for example) ships FLTK configured with XFT >> support, which >> makes OpenGL fonts in all the FLTK apps in Debian look bad. > > > Have you tested this fix and found that it is "good"? I did some > testing, but did not have time enough to be as thorough as I'd like. > Does it work reliably for you with your Debian apps? > > If so, we could maybe speak nicely to Matthias about patching it into > the 1.1.8 mainstream (it is almost, but not quite, a drop-in replacement > for Fl_fonts_xft.cxx, I think.)
Hi Ian - Yes, I've tested it on Debian and it works well. What I did is simply replace the function fl_xxfont() in the latest official FLTK snapshot with the one from the fltk-1.1.8-utf. Looking at fl_xxfont() I guess we could quite easily add support for the other standard fonts, too. Christophe > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
