In reply to Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> 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.
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>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 ?
that's not a problem for a terminal with fixed monospaced fonts...
>> Make sure you are caching the glyphs. The freetype bitmap generation is a huge
>> overhead (makes drawing ten times slower).
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>right. Note that FreeType developers are working on a caching system themselfs.
>But since Cesar reads that group, he probably knows that already...
yes, i'm caching right now. not really a big deal, but it will be very
nice to have a caching system ready.
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