This looks interessting, did you try this with Xaw also ? re, wh
Am 04.03.2012 22:51, schrieb Jean-Pierre Demailly: > Hi: > > Please find enclosed a suggestion of patch for libXaw3d-1.6.1 (actually > for the current git version that has an additional one line bug fix), > along with two new files Xaw3dXft.h and Xaw3dXft.c - you will also find > a tarball of the patched version at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/libxaw3dxft/libXaw3dXft-1.6.2.tar.bz2 > > The main goal of this patch is to enable truetype fonts and UTF8 strings > in libXaw3d, using freetype routines (-lXft -lfontconfig required). > > By default, libXaw3dXft-1.6.2 should behave exactly as libXaw3d-1.6.1 (with > the minor one line bug fix already mentioned). More precisely, it should be > completely upward source compatible with libXaw3d-1.6.1 (but probably not > binary compatible for apps using extensively the toolkit). > > New features can be enabled by setting ad hoc parameters, the default > values of which are : > > char Xaw3dXftEncoding = 0; > char Xaw3dXftStringHilight = 0; > char Xaw3dXftStringUsePixmap = 0; > char Xaw3dXftMenuSpacing = 1; > char Xaw3dXftShowTips = 1; > char Xaw3dXftTipDoGrab = 1; > char Xaw3dXftBorderHack = 1; > char Xaw3dXftNoHilitReverse = 0; > char Xaw3dXftButtonInverse = 1; > char Xaw3dXftButtonDashed = 0; > char Xaw3dXftMultiColumnMenu = 0; > > Pixel Xaw3dXftTipBackgroundColor = -1; /* disabled */ > char * Xaw3dXftHilitColor = NULL; /* disabled */ > unsigned short Xaw3dXftInsensitiveTwist[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 0}; /* disabled */ > > char * Xaw3dXftDefaultFontName = NULL; > XftFont * Xaw3dXftDefaultFont = NULL; > > The main parameter is Xaw3dXftEncoding. When it is set to 0, the X core font > protocol is used. When it is set to -1 (i.e. 255), freetype is used along > with utf8 encoding. Other values are > Xaw3dXftEncoding = 8 ( 8 bit encodings with freetype) > Xaw3dXftEncoding = 16 (16 bit encodings with freetype) > > The fonts should be specified in fontconfig notation by setting the > *xftFont: XXXX > resource values (or by setting the global Xaw3dXftDefaultFontName which is > then used as the default font in case none is defined); freetype has the > additional benefit of selecting a fallback font in case the selected > one does not exist or cannot be loaded. > > Som apps using the modified library can be found at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/xaw3dxft-progs/ > Xpaint invokes almost all new features ; its look and fill is then > somewhat closer to what would give a GTK app, especially libXaw3dXft > provides antialiased fonts and UTF8 strings throughout the GUI. Another > app that can be compiled that way is xtide-2.13-RC2-jpd.tar.bz2 (a very > slight modification of xtide-2.13-RC2 by David Flater); xtide shows an > example of multicolumn menus implementation (click on the year box > in the "set time" menu). > > Notice that multicolumn menus are now available with plain libXaw, but not > in libXaw3d which was forked before this feature was introduced in libXaw. > In libXaw3dXft multicolumn menus only work when > Xaw3dXftNoHilitReverse = 1; > Xaw3dXftMultiColumnMenu = 1; > are set (so they won't work in the default mode, some more changes > in the ThreeD routines would be needed for that). > > Best regards, > > Jean-Pierre Demailly > (xpaint developer/maintainer) > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
