On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:09:16 -0400
"Hess, Philip J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SynEdit is not the only custom control that was fixed by the change
> to BeginTextRender that disabled the fractional positioning of
> characters. This was an important fix since proportional font
> characters do not have whole number widths, yet they can only be
> displayed on a device using whole pixels. Without disabling this,
> then width(char) x number of chars in string <> width(string), which
> is what was causing the problem in SynEdit (and any other text editor
> type custom controls). Note that all char and string width functions
> return a whole number, so individual char widths get rounded.
AFAIK only synedit needs monospace fonts. What other text editor's do
you mean?
> Tobias, what fonts are you using? Could you post your example app.
> I'm not seeing the char positioning differences here.
>
> Please be careful making any changes to this. I believe
> Canvas.OutText calls ExtTextOut with DX=nil so the suggested
> workaround may break some other things that were fixed with the
> BeginTextRender change.
Yes, afaik only SynEdit fills DX. All others don't use it. If DX<>nil
every character is placed at a custom position. With DX=nil the
widgetset should paint the text normal.
Mattias
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