> I think i might build 1.3 just to get that functionality! as > far as the versions go i see on the download pages that 1.1 > is listed as 'stable' but the others are not given this lofty > status, i am planning on releasing a number of the projects i > am working on commercially (beleive it or not!) and i need to > know i am working with the most reliably portable etc
Depends what you want from 1.3. In general, 1.1 and 1.3 are very similar, and both are essentially stable. However, 1.3 is not yet released because there are chunks of functionality we plan to incorporate that are not quite ready yet (mainly pertaining to UTF8 support.) If you don't need that functionality, then for most practical purposes 1.3 is as stable as 1.1... Though of course you will be testing your app before you release it anyway, so any stability issues will be exposed at that point anyway, so you are not really dependent on our opinion as to the stability or otherwise of our lib! > version, would i be safe with 1.3? or stick with 1.1? What targets are you looking at? If OSX versions from 10.6 onwards are part of your target group, you may actually be better off with 1.3 than with 1.1, "stability" notwithstanding, since Apple have changed some key API's in 10.6 that makes 1.1 tricky on OSX 10.6 and later (related to Apples moving more aggressively to 64-bit API's and deprecating Carbon as an API layer...) > As a matter of interest can ttf fonts be loaded as > alternatives? Its just i had a nice one i sometimes use, not > really concerned about it though, the inbuilt ones suit fine What host are you on? You should be getting any ttf fonts that are loaded by default anyway. Though on X11 hosts with 1.1 you need to configure --enable-xft to get anti-aliasing enabled (though that is the default for 1.3 these days.) Or are you only using the fltk built-in font hooks at present? You can load any font that is on your system simply by using the fltk font API calls - see the fonts demos in the test folder of some examples of doing this. SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
