Lee Brown wrote:
> I am more ignorant than you but here is my input.
>
> For scrolling you can either:
> 1) Set origin (this is not supported always so it isn't an option really)
> 2) Erase the previous characters and redraw the new characters
> 3) CopyBox to shift the old characters and then draw the new characters.
>
> For the general, I think pixel by pixel is necessary because the glyphs do not
> neccessarily all fit into side by side boxes. If you blindly just write the
> bitmap to the screen then you may overwrite a part of a previous glyph.
good point. Are there any blit operations with alpha support ? Is this possible
in principle ? If so, does GGI aim at support that some day ?
> Make sure you are caching the glyphs. The freetype bitmap generation is a huge
> overhead (makes drawing ten times slower).
right. Note that FreeType developers are working on a caching system themselfs.
But since Cesar reads that group, he probably knows that already...
Regards, Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
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