Am On 08.05.2012 14:38, schrieb MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:
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>> Question: How "expensive" would measuring the text before doing
>> the real output in X11 be?
>
> I do not know.
> It is likely that the correct answer will be "That depends" I guess.
>
> If the code is running on a loca
On 05/08/12 05:38, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:
>> Second question: What function should be used: fl_measure() or
>> fl_text_extents()? Would there be a performance difference to be
>> expected, or would it only be the small difference in the exact
>> layout? The latter could IMHO be i
> Question: How "expensive" would measuring the text before doing
> the real output in X11 be?
I do not know.
It is likely that the correct answer will be "That depends" I guess.
If the code is running on a local server, the round-trip will be a lot quicker
than a transaction over the network..
Question: How "expensive" would measuring the text before doing
the real output in X11 be?
Reasoning: In STR #2798 [1] there's a proposal to clip text before
drawing in X11, because of the problem with 16-bit coordinates
in X11 vs. 32-bit coordinates in FLTK. The proposed patch [2] is
incomplete (
