[ft] Re: Simple Question About How Hinting Works

2010-12-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[CCed to the freetype mailing list] I want to modify Juce to use Freetype to extract glyph outlines. Juce is a multiplatform GUI toolkit with some pretty nice features, see http://rawmaterialsoftware.com/ Currently, I get an error while accessing this page... Does hinting affect the

[ft] freetype and threads

2010-12-05 Thread Zoltan Kovacs
Hi. I am using freetype in one of my projects and have a question about freetype and how thread safe it is. My question is really simple: can I call FT_Load_Glyph() from different threads at the same time while having only one FT_Library instance? I tried but it seems to cause corrupted

Re: [ft] freetype and threads

2010-12-05 Thread Róbert Márki
Hi I strongly suggest to use multiple FT_Library objects, one for each thread, no locking is necessary. For multi-threading applications each thread should have its own FT_Library object. http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Library On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at