Hi Andreas,

"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote in message 
news:4A9B544B.3010400 at gmx.de...
> Hi -
>
> I'm sure most of you have seen what I've been up to on the weekend. I did 
> a round of integration work on Freetype in order to make its installation 
> and uninstallation just as simple as Shout. Plus, there have already been 
> some changes to font rendering in the trunk that interact with Freetype's 
> overrides in problematic ways and I really want to give this stuff even 
> more of a make-over which would make the problem only worse.
>
> The current status is that outside of the FreeTypePlus core classes you 
> need two additional extension methods, 
> BitBlit(GrafPort)>>installFreeTypeFont:... and 
> BitBlt>>copyBitsColor:alpha:gammaTable:ungammaTable:. I've left these with 
> Freetype since they are "classic" extension methods (that is they add 
> functionality that is required by Freetype but doesn't affect anything 
> else).
>
> Other than that there are no further extensions or overrides of the core 
> packages necessary. All of the core font stuff has been merged and the 
> only other thing needed is to tell Squeak where to find the new fonts. 
> I've cheated a little on that one by providing a hook that allows 
> replacing the font chooser with one that knows how to deal with Freetype 
> fonts, i.e., after installing Freetype you can simply execute 
> "FontChooserTool default: FontChooser" and it will take the FontChooser 
> from Freetype and  give you access to the Freetype fonts.
>
> Andy - I'm curious if you would consider moving these extensions and 
> overrides out of the Freetype and into some FreetypePatches packages (just 
> like you have with the PinesoftEnhancementsForFreetype). This would allow 
> us to load a straight version of Freetype into trunk images without the 
> fear of conflicts.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
There are also a number of bug fixes from the Pharo fork that need to be 
pulled back into the main FreeTypePlus repository.
So, I will create the new package structure when I port the fixes back.

Cheers,
Andy



>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>